Archive - The Problem of Policymaker Ignorance

October 2024

Policymaker Ignorance and the 2024 Presidential Election

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

Oct 30, 2024 •

24:52

Consensus, Censorship, and the Problem of Policymaker Ignorance

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

Oct 14, 2024 •

45:34

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 •

16:03

Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, and Policymaker Ignorance

How democratic can a government of ignorant policymakers be?

Sep 1, 2024 •

12:17

August 2024

Price Controls, Industrial Policy, and Policymaker Ignorance

An analysis of two very bad ideas...

Aug 26, 2024 •

19:54

June 2024

An Update on Some Previously Discussed Topics

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

Jun 6, 2024 •

40:20

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 •

36:32

December 2023

...And we're back

University Presidents are policymakers...

Dec 15, 2023 •

25:05

November 2023

Policymaker Ignorance and the Obama-Biden Iran Appeasement Strategy

Obama and Biden are not evil, but they are very, very ignorant...

Nov 4, 2023 •

25:00

October 2023

The Problem of Policymaker Ignorance and the Hamas Terrorist Attacks on Israel

The consequences of technocratic hubris...

Oct 22, 2023 •

53:38

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