This post by Robert Farley gets it exactly right. Boys don’t grow up knowing this stuff, they seek it out, or they get it in the classroom. Girls can too. Even after adulthood. There’s no shame in studying up on something you don’t know.

Farley’s further point that experience teaches pretty well too seems right also. If only there were a moral equivalent of war that would give people a low nonsense threshold for policy matters. Or at least a course. Why, perhaps economists could take it, maybe from economic historians.