The Importance of Ideology Over Facts

I think it was Hayek who explained his explanation for why intellectuals were more likely to be socialists than capitalists. So that was an early public choice argument which I have always found comforting. Let's move on to a set of global issues that you talk about in the book. A lot of people blame European colonialism for exploiting poor nations, leaving them poor and using that as an indictment of typically what's called the West.