Must-Read: Noah Smith: We’re All Smart. And Dumb. Sometimes

Noah Smith: We’re All Smart. And Dumb. Sometimes: “The good criticism of behavioral econ is that it’s very hard to go from the lab to the real world… …The bad one [is] people are way, way too afraid of the soft paternalism of nudges…. William Easterly… expressed this fear when he tweeted: ‘Behavioral econ [Thaler] … Continue reading Must-Read: Noah Smith: We’re All Smart. And Dumb. Sometimes