[lbo-talk] The "Rational" Voter

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Mar 24 15:18:21 PDT 2007


andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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>
> 1) It ignores the collective action/public goods
> problem that makes it rational for individuals to
> settle for their their second worst choices in the
> absence of an incentive structure to make it rational
> to cooperate on getting the best choice;

What it (implicitly) _recognizes, and what none of the refuations recognize is that elections are simply a stupid way to make public policy -- and that failure leads to a failure to put brain power to work figuring out how we can have democracy without elections.

Carrol



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