coerced treatment

[Brad DeLong]

>I despise the "informed consumer" model.  we're asked to research tax policy,
>medicine, land use laws, banking regs, phone companies, ad infinitum, before
>making a "consumer choice".  gag me.  there aren't enough hours in the day to
>be well informed about everything that might benefit us, and in a lot of
>cases people don't have the background knowledge to even know where to start
>on the research, though in some sense, the information might be "available".

_Consumer Reports_ isn't bad, and it is cheap. One of the big things 
that puzzles me is why its mindshare isn't greater.

Brad Delong
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Professor J. Bradford DeLong
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delong at econ.berkeley.edu
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