All articles from Overcoming Bias
No-Corner Futarchy
In March 1980, the Hunt Brothers tried but failed to corner the silver market.
Our Precious
We make our world better and easier with systems.
Public Opinion Is Culture
Until the last century or two, states had far weaker capacities to intervene in their societies.
The Big Public Failures
I’ve been adjacent to two literatures for much of my academic career: public choice and govt efficiency. The public choice literature tries to use econ theory to explain govt choice of policies, while
If Punching Up is OK, So Is Punching Down
Thinking that our world monoculture seems to be drifting into maladaption, I’ve wondered how to get folks to care more about making their culture adaptive.