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
The special interest is not in opposition only to general interest, it is usually (always?) in opposition to other special interests, and general interest is some kind of synthesis.
The general public might be slow, but it seems to me that democracies progress in one step backward two step forward fashion in all areas of life.
Which book are you referring to? Olson wrote four, I believe, at least four, and this might apply to more than one.
The Rise and Decline of Nations is the book.My own take on this is that the end state of democracies is Argentina or Venezuela: trust me- you don't want to go there.