The Myth of the Rational Voter

Why Democracies choose bad policies

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Autor(en)	Bryan Caplan	Verlag	Princeton University Press
Sachgebiet(e)	Radikalliberalismus, English Books	ISBN	978-0-691-12942-6
2007, 280 Seiten, Festeinband/Hardcover

Winner of the 2008 Silver Independent Publisher Book Medal, Current Events Category

also available as paperback

The greatest obstactle 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.

... The Myth of the Rational Voter takes an unflinching look at how people who vote under the influence of false beliefs ultimately end up with government that delivers lousy results. ...

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