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| Published: August 1, 2007, 11:57 pm |
| Tags: general, constitution, culture, politics, philosophy, democracy |
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John Stossel: It wasn’t until I was about 40 that I started to believe I had acquired a good sense of what domestic policies might serve people well. (I still have no clue about international affairs.) I only started to think I knew what ought to be done after years of reporting and reading voraciously to absorb arguments from left and right. The idea that most voters vote without having done much of that work is, frankly, scary. I’m not alone in this concern. An economist at George Mason University, Bryan Caplan, says few people think about their vote or even see any benefit in doing so. His new book, “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies” , argues that most voters cast their ballot on the basis of irrational biases about economic matters. That’s why so many candidates hostile to free markets, profits, free world trade and immigration get elected. People tend to acquire their wrong opinions about economic policy packaged in [ Full article ] |
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