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34. Bryan Caplan - Voters as Mad Scientists

Ideas Having Sex

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The Inertia of Left and Right Coalitions

I think intuitively, I might views of left and right as broad categories are something like they're not helpfully thought of as real movements. You know, the fact that free traders ended up on one side of this or the other is mostly an accident and a result of inertia at this point. The whole grouping of the left and the right is just mostly this series of coalition accidents. What I would say is I'll take your view and divide it by two.

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