I am very happy to live in a place in which rationality and compassion thrive. Colorado legislated the first extensive capitalistic medical marijuana laws this past summer. Local communities were ...

Emotion, not rationality, rules our world – something policymakers should learn. So says David Brooks, who uses fiction to illustrate cognitive science It came from covering policy failures as a ...

In a previous post, we considered three of seven "irrational" habits of highly rational people. Here we consider the remaining four, as well as some suggestions for distinguishing the genuinely ...

This paper examines an alternative microfoundation for the Phillips Curve by considering a possibility where price setters are constrained by the length of the time horizon over which they can form ...

Rather than automatically associating rules governing voting with voter suppression, which makes it difficult to have a reasonable conversation, the conversations should begin with the Constitution ...