The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (New Edition)The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - Kavinay - LibraryThing"Altrusim and morality have a consumption cost like any other..." There are two ways to look at Kaplan's work: 1. That this is a cynical work on political game theory that predicts the rise of Trump ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - pjeanne - LibraryThingWeaves a number of things together in coming up with an interesting theory for why people don't vote rationally. Education/Ignorance, low cost of voting the wrong way, emotion-driven biases against ... Consulter l'avis complet
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies Bryan Douglas Caplan Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |