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		<title>As Easy As A.B.C.</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/03/as-easy-as-a-b-c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple months ago, when I watched H.G. Wells&#8217; Things to Come, it led me to pick up a used copy of The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling, which includes two stories about a future world &#8220;ruled&#8221; by the Aerial Board of Control: With the night mail and As Easy As A.B.C. Kipling&#8217;s A.B.C. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy is a commons, not a market</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/02/democracy-is-a-commons-not-a-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before Mencius hijacked my brain, I read another, softer anti-democratic piece, Bryan Caplan&#8217;s The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. I&#8217;ve discussed it before, but in an election year, it all bears repeating. And there&#8217;s the fact that I finally got around to reading the book, not just a good summary [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Months of Intellectual Anthropology</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/11/six-months-of-intellectual-anthropology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Caplan thinks Tyler Cowen makes a spot-on plea when he asks for six months of intellectual anthropology: I&#8217;d like to propose a new research convention. Anytime a writer or blogger talks about what The Right or The Left (or some subset thereof) really wants or means, I&#8217;d like them to list their personal anthropological [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch the Platforms, Not the Winner</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/06/watch-the-platforms-not-the-winner/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/06/watch-the-platforms-not-the-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Caplan (The Myth of the Rational Voter) says, Watch the Platforms, Not the Winner: Puzzle: If you look at voting behavior, education does little to make people more Democratic or more Republican. So what difference does it make if people acquire more sensible views about policy, if it doesn&#8217;t change their vote? […] What [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote for me, dimwit</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/06/vote-for-me-dimwit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Vote for me, dimwit, the Economist reviews Bryan Caplan&#8217;s The Myth of the Rational Voter: The world is a complex place. Most people are inevitably ignorant about most things, which is why shows like “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” are funny. Politics is no exception. Only 15% of Americans know who Harry [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dumbocracy in America</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/06/dumbocracy-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Dumbocracy in America, Nick Schulz interviews Bryan Caplan on his recent book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: If people were merely ignorant about economics, I wouldn&#8217;t be worried. After all, if you never studied a subject, we&#8217;d expect you just to be agnostic about it. The real problem is that people have strong [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Clueless</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/05/clueless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Clueless, in the New York Times, Gary J. Bass, associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton, reviews Bryan Caplan&#8217;s new book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies: Now Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University, has attracted notice for raising a pointed question: Do voters have [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Books for Brooks</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/11/books-for-brooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Schulz suggests some Books for Brooks — books for New York Times writer David Brooks, who complained that &#8220;big books&#8221; of &#8220;politically useful&#8221; thought have been replaced with blogs: Brink Lindsey, Against the Dead HandRobert Shiller, The New Financial OrderRobert Fogel, The Escape From Hunger and Premature DeathWilliam Lewis, The Power of ProductivityJoel Mokyr, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of the Rational Voter</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/11/the-myth-of-the-rational-voter/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/11/the-myth-of-the-rational-voter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Caplan debunks The Myth of the Rational Voter, starting with misconceptions about the economy: Economists and the public hold radically different beliefs about the economy.[4] Compared to the experts, laymen are much more skeptical of markets, especially international and labor markets, and much more pessimistic about the past, present, and future of the economy. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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