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Bryan Caplan Will Not Be Stampeded!
Description
Mike welcomes back to the show Bryan Caplan, a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, prolific author, and blogger at Bet on It. They discuss his latest essay collection, You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism.
Topics Mike and Bryan Discuss Include
- disobedience to authority
- why the world is wrong and the weird is right
- herding and hysteria
- the ubiquity (and danger) of crusades
- what the world got wrong about COVID
- combining cynicism and idealism
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