Showing posts with label Rationality of voters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rationality of voters. Show all posts
Monday, February 9, 2026

Can the rise of populism be explained as a reaction to the rule of experts?

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  In an essay written over 15 years ago I observed that we were beginning to see a populist reaction to the rule of experts in the United St...
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...