Through the lens of the Jock/Nerd Theory of History, the welfare state doesn't look like a serious effort to "equalize outcomes." It looks more like a serious effort to block the "revenge of the nerds"-to keep them from using their financial success to unseat the jocks on every dimension of social status. (Bryan Caplan)

Through the lens of the Jock/Nerd Theory of History, the welfare state doesn't look like a serious effort to "equalize outcomes." It looks more like a serious effort to block the "revenge of the nerds"-to keep them from using their financial success to unseat the jocks on every dimension of social status.

Bryan Caplan

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