The Week in Policymaker Ignorance

Scott discusses Canada's Online Streaming Act and the RESTRICT Act currently making its way through the American Congress.

In this week's episode of the WIPMI podcast, Scott discusses the role that policymaker ignorance played in the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in 2021, and offers some updates on stories discussed in recent episodes.

Scott analyzes the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 through the lens of the problem of policymaker ignorance.

Scott discusses the new multi-part series on the general problem of ignorance in decision-making just started on the Problem of Policymaker Ignorance Substack page and offers some brief remarks on the latest news regarding bailouts, and the ongoing protests in Israel and France.

Scott discusses Federal Reserve policy over the last fifteen years or so through the lens of Christopher Leonard's book, The Lords of Easy Money, and its significance for the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the subsequent bailout, etc.

Scott discusses this week's additions to the Problem of Policymaker Ignorance Substack Page, plus the so-called "Lockdown Files" and how not to revive America's semiconductor industry.

Scott considers the Great Chinese Balloon Race Across America and the Not-So-Great Norfolk Southern Ohio Train Derailment in the light of the problem of policymaker ignorance.

Scott reviews some recent instances of policymaker ignorance and discusses the political-epistemological implications of Leo Tolstoy's philosophy of history in War and Peace.