{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"262 Thinking Rationally Part 8: Popular Irrational Biases","description":"Many ideas that have been debunked long ago nonetheless remain very popular. This episode highlights three popular irrational biases about economics, taken from Brian Caplan's book The Myth Of The Rational Voter. The biases covered are the pessimism bias, the anti-market bias, and the anti-foreign bias.  Show Notes:  All Previous Episodes in the Thinking Rationally Series The Myth Of The Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan  Episode 90 Rational Optimism Versus Doom Porn The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley  Episode 227 Review Of The Better Angels Of Our Nature By Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker  Entrepreneurship Part 4: Profit Is Sanity  Episode 176 The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Ludwig Von Mises Part 1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;(and  Part 2)  Episode 225 Comparative Advantage Is Mind-blowing    ","author_name":"The Voluntary Life","author_url":"http:\/\/www.thevoluntarylife.com\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5530310\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/16618397"}