October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
I can totally imagine a children's version. With illustrations of crazy voters doing crazy things. Rhyming.
I won't need a copy for about two years. Make sure it's ready by then.
Maybe you can refer the reviewer to your comic strip version...
I looked up a dictionary once. But it was boring, which made it hard to hold my concentration.
I'm far from a professional economist, but I don't remember ever having to look in a dictionary when I read "Myth of the Rational Voter." I'll admit that most professional economic papers I'd need to read next to a good reference guide, but "Myth of the Rational Voter" seemed to me to be written for a pretty standard audience.
I certainly found it less dense than Hayek or Von Mises, or even Milton Friedman (who can certainly get "university-level" when he's writing a chapter on monetary policy, even in his most generally-aimed books).
Fear not, Bryan. As long as you are propagating knowledge and information, you are serving humanity. There are already enough folks out there propagating ignorance and misinformation - serving themselves only.
Congratulations on the Fin Times kudo.
I didn't need a dictionary, but I did find the explanation of Public Choice difficult to follow. Still, it wasn't as difficult as the Cisco technical books I have to read, and I didn't need to take a test when I finished. Your book is an important contribution to the public discussion of democracy.