all posts on May 29th, 2007


The Myth of the Rational Voter - part II

A while back I posted in response to Bryan Caplan’s essay (and now book) on voter irrationality. He views human misconceptions, about economics in particular, (he quotes how people are wrong in orders of magnitude about the extent of foreign aid given by the US, the effects of immigration etc.) as irrational. That is, people […]