The Problem of Policymaker Ignorance

Trump Tower (of Babel?): DOGE, Tariffs, and Policymaker Ignorance

The epistemic challenges of reducing government and of resetting the global trade regime...

Apr 14 • 

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March 2025

Policymaker Ignorance and the Vietnam War, Part 2: The Kennedy Years

Neither the best nor the brightest...

Mar 31 • 

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January 2025

Policymaker Ignorance and the Vietnam War, Part 1: The First Indochina War, Điện Biên Phủ, and All That

The folly begins...

Jan 27 • 

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Policymaker Ignorance and the Los Angeles Fires

The deleterious consequences of basing policy decisions on luxury beliefs...

Jan 17 • 

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October 2024

Policymaker Ignorance and the 2024 Presidential Election

Both candidates are obviously stupid, but are they policymaker-ignorant?

Oct 30, 2024 • 

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Consensus, Censorship, and the Problem of Policymaker Ignorance

Policymakers censor because they don't know how to persuade...

Oct 14, 2024 • 

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September 2024

Making Democracy Effective in a World of Policymaker Ignorance

How to escape a world where popular sovereignty is superficially venerated, but ignored in practice...

Sep 10, 2024 • 

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Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, and Policymaker Ignorance

How democratic can a government of ignorant policymakers be?

Sep 1, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Price Controls, Industrial Policy, and Policymaker Ignorance

An analysis of two very bad ideas...

Aug 26, 2024 • 

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June 2024

An Update on Some Previously Discussed Topics

How's that Iran appeasement strategy going, Geriatric Joe?

Jun 6, 2024 • 

Scott Scheall

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April 2024

WIPMI Book Club - James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

A classic of political science...

Apr 6, 2024 • 

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December 2023

...And we're back

University Presidents are policymakers...

Dec 15, 2023 • 

Scott Scheall

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