Allison Schrager

Allison Schrager is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk.

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Jan 21, 2026

Why Do We Keep Choosing Bad Policies?

There are pretty obviously good and bad economic policies. We keep choosing the bad ones.
Jan 7, 2026

Maybe Black-Scholes Will Save Us

Greetings from our collective utopia