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34. Bryan Caplan - Voters as Mad Scientists

Ideas Having Sex

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The Resistance of Young Economists to Voting

Economists have invested a whole lot in research that assumes that shopping and voting are the same. And if they admit that I'm right, then they've got to go and basically take a flamethrower to all this previous research. Are younger economists just as resistant to this? No, there is sort of,. yeah, but if I do this, then I'm going against what all the more senior people say they're not going to like it. That's more strategic.

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