Showing posts with label Rationality of voters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rationality of voters. Show all posts
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Part IV: What incentives are political entrepreneurs faced with?

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This essay is one of a series exploring the topic: What impact does political entrepreneurship have on freedom and flourishing? The series...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

How does Entangled Political Economy help us to understand political entrepreneurship?

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  After I finished reading Richard E. Wagner’s book, Politics as a Peculiar Business , the thought crossed my mind that I should encourage p...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Do clinical delusions have anything in common with a mythology mindset?

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  In my discussion of Steven Pinker’s book, Rationality, I referred to his observation that people tend to have a reality mindset in the wo...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

What's wrong with people?

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  This question is posed in the title of Chapter 10 of Steven Pinker’s book , Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters. ...
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Sunday, January 8, 2023

Does the "Politics of Being" support progress?

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  “Politics of Being” is title of a recently published book by Thomas Legrand. The subtitle is “Wisdom and science for a new development pa...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Does voting just encourage them?

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  A couple of weeks ago the thought struck me that it was about time I wrote something about the personal ethics of voting. That turned out ...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Is "scout mindset" a worthy objective of personal development?

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  If someone had mentioned “scout mindset” to me a week ago, I would probably have thought they were referring to mottos of the scouting mov...