The Volokh Conspiracy | Opinion Can we trust government to correct our cognitive biases? By Ilya Somin October 13, 2017 at 11:55 AM Can these guys be trusted to correct our cognitive errors? President Barack Obama and Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office, Nov. 10, 2016. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/) Economist Richard Thaler recently won the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics for his important work documenting widespread cognitive errors in human decision-making . All too often, people fail t...