The Idea Trap

Metadata

• Author: [[Bryan Caplan]]
• Full Title: The Idea Trap
• Category: #articles
• URL: https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2004/Caplanidea.html

Highlights

• A society can get stuck in an “idea trap,” where bad ideas lead to bad policy, bad policy leads to bad growth, and bad growth cements bad ideas.
• The connection between growth and ideas is not so much logical as psychological.
  • Tags: [[ideas]]