Monday, August 11, 2008

The Myth of the Rational Voter

What does the average voter know? Does he vote as an informed, rational being? Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University, says the answers to those questions are, respectively, nothing and no.

This is an audio file of Bryan Caplan discussing his provocative and troubling work on the myth of the rational voter.

Listen to it here.

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