All Posts Tagged With: "antiforeign bias"

A Democracy of Dunces

When pro-free-market critics of democracy explain why laissez faire is not a winning election issue, they usually say that voters have no incentive to research economic policy because one vote won’t sway the election and the expected payoff to any individual voter is infinitesimal. So, quite rationally, they vote on other bases. This “rational ignorance” [...]

1Nov2007 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | Continued
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