“Groups must balance the need to enforce norms with the need to adapt. If the group is unable to enforce social norms, then there will be too much cheating, and cooperation will break down. However, if the group is too… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves. — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional. — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington. — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I have very… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
Your generosity is reflected in what you do with your own money, not in what you do with other people's money. If I give… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history. — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
![“I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight is that a market limits the power that others have over us; conversely, limiting the power that others have over us allows us to have markets. Friedman…” quote by Arnold Kling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/100/arnold-kling-32482_better-job_i-call-this-the-fundamental-problem-of-p_1424862.jpg)
