Reading an introductory economics textbook carefully and calmly is the single most convincing way to resolve the dispute between economists and the public, because an open-minded reader will conclude much of what they believed was simply false—though this requires a large time investment that distrustful people won't make.

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Bryan Caplan

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just going to the economics textbook and reading it with a calm spirit is probably the single most convincing way of actually resolving this dispute

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Bryan Caplan on The Myth of the Rational Voter 6/25/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:20:37 AM

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