The Importance of Political Action

You can get the right politician in. But as we learned from things like public choice theory that's not useful, because you can never really guarantee what they're actually going to do when they're in power. And that's not always the best form of activism. One good example of how political activism does work is what is the work that Peter Jorisk is doing on blood plasma. He pushed the political button on that one and something happened in Alberta they changed the idea there and now you can pay for blood plasma in Alberta so these are things that are important politically. On the other side of the political argument there's the story of Anthony Fisher and FA Hayek - he was a prominent