“If you do not grasp the difference between orange juice and detergent, brand names will at best help you drink the finest detergent on the market, and wash your dishes with the right amount of pulp.” — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have. — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
“My findings may not be watertight, but they are more than seaworthy.” — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world.… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it. — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
“It is irrational to be politically well-informed because the low returns from data simply do not justify their cost in time and other resources.” — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
“the ineradicable prejudice that every action intended to serve the profit interest must be anti-social by this fact alone.”27” — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics? — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations. — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
