出版社：Liberalni Institut, University of Economics, Prague
摘要：All serious students of political economy should read The Myth of the Rational
Voter. It attempts to answer one of the most important questions in political economy
ｨC why democracies choose bad policies. Caplan｡ｯs answer is bold. He claims that
governments do not fail to produce good outcomes because of special interests or
self-interested bureaucrats or politicians. Instead, he argues that voters largely get
the policies they want, but voter beliefs on economic issues are irrational and systematically
biased. He does this while arguing that even though traditional neoclassical
theory assumes rationality, he is well within that framework. Voters are rationally
irrational.
