More Reading Recommendations from David Romer

More reading advice from David Romer, Bryan Caplan's The Myth of the Rational Voter is, he says, brilliant: everybody should read it.

Comments

[T.R. Elliott]

Hopefully Mr. Romer will like my book in the works: "The Myth of the Myth of the Rational Human." Chapter 3 deconstructs the myth of the rational economist. Chapter 4 the myth of the rational psychiatrist. And Chapter 5 the rational sociologist. I conclude with a chapter on how social darwinism will produce a more resilient and efficient species.

[Anderson]

Actually, Mr. Elliott, I think the last chapter should be a recursive "now, let's debunk the myth of the just-concluded debunking," and send the reader back to the first chapter.

[T.R. Elliott]

Mr Anderson: Excellent point. Brilliant idea. The book should deconstruct itself once it has deconstructed everything else. Derrida would be proud.