The findings suggest that politicians are not always in touch with the public mood, Kori Schake, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said during the same panel discussion: “One of the things that I found most interesting in the numbers is that 56% of Bernie Sanders’ supporters support the TPP. A vast majority of Hillary Clinton’s supporters support it and you would never know that from listening to the campaign rhetoric.”

I have my wishes about who will win the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday. But I always distinguish between what I want and what I expect.

There is a possible universe in which these arguments against cash would be true.

Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book. O'Neil argues that the commercial application of big data often harms individuals in unknown ways.