Economist Ryan Murphy explains divergences between popular and informed opinion on the value of the institutions of the modern world, including globalized markets, science, and pluralism. The public expresses hostility for these institutions both in the voting booth and in their private lives, and even through the marketplace itself.

Ryan H. Murphy is research associate professor at the O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University.

Chapter 1, Trade Is Good
Chapter 2, "Extreme Voter Stupidity"
Chapter 3, The Obvious and Simple System of Unnatural Liberty
Chapter 4, Ecological Irrationality in the Wild
Chapter 5, Bohemian Status-archy
Chapter 6, Anarchy, State, and Dystopia,
Chapter 7, Too Much Social Capital
Chapter 8, The Poverty of DIYism
Chapter 9, Social Luddism
Chapter 10, Whither Expertise?