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Mises, Bastiat, Public Opinion, and Public Choice: What's Wrong with Democracy?Bryan CaplanGeorge Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice Edward Peter StringhamFayetteville State University - School of Business and Economics 2005 Review of Political Economy, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 79-105, January 2005 Abstract: The political economy of Ludwig von Mises and Frederic Bastiat has been largely ignored even by their admirers. We argue that Mises' and Bastiat's views in this area were both original and insightful. While traditional public choice generally maintains that democracy fails because voters' views are rational but ignored, the Mises-Bastiat view is that democracy fails because voters' views are irrational but heeded. Mises and Bastiat anticipate many of the most effective criticisms of tra4itional public choice to emerge during the last decade and point to many avenues for future research.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 45 JEL Classification: D72, H10, P16, B53 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: September 10, 2010 ; Last revised: December 15, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
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