All Posts Tagged With: "Bryan Caplan"
Book Reviews – March 2008
- Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
by Bryan Caplan Reviewed by Dwight Lee - The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World
1Mar2008 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | Continued
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 | ContinuedBad Is Not Good
Youthful exponents of the freedom philosophy sometimes believe that things will get better politically only if they first get worse. As statism brings its inevitable hardships, people will correctly identify the causes of their adversity and demand a rollback of government power. The Russian Revolution, which grew out of a miserable war, seems to support [...]
1Mar2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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