Robin Hanson tells us that politics isn’t about policy. I think he exaggerates, but in the interest of fair disclosure, here’s an amusing Howard Stern clip to back Robin up.
HT: Mark Steckbeck
Oct 14 2008
The amazing Mark Thoma has already read everything in the links below. The rest of you could benefit from reading my excerpts and commentary.1. Susan E. Woodward writes, Treasury has access to the best resources in the business for estimating the hold-to-maturity values of mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. T...
Oct 13 2008
Imagine an announcer came on TV and said, "Welcome to the 2008 Bank Telethon. You've heard all the horror stories. Now, with the holiday season approaching, I know you'll want to reach deep into your pockets to lend a hand." "I know what you're wondering: How much should I give? Well, the banks need $250 billion. ...
Oct 13 2008
Robin Hanson tells us that politics isn't about policy. I think he exaggerates, but in the interest of fair disclosure, here's an amusing Howard Stern clip to back Robin up.HT: Mark Steckbeck
READER COMMENTS
Robin Hanson
Oct 13 2008 at 4:21pm
Some precious “gotcha” moments there, caught on tape. 🙂
Andrew Maier
Oct 13 2008 at 7:59pm
I’d be pretty interested to see what results he would get by not selecting for race. If ended up getting equally ignorant responses from white people in other parts of the city or in other cities, I would not be surprised.
Ian
Oct 13 2008 at 8:04pm
Bryan, you say that people vote for policies hoping to make their country better, but are mistaken about which policies will do the job. Thus, if the uninformed were prevented from voting, policies would be better.
But I wonder why informed people would be likely to vote to improve their country, rather than voting randomly or however feels good. A small probability of affecting the outcome suggests that informed people will vote just as carelessly as the uninformed.
In The Myth of the Rational Voter, your evidence for voters’ good intentions is that men are more pro-choice than women, the elderly are slightly less supportive of Social Security and Medicare than the rest of the population, and people in non-farm states vote for farm subsidies.
Do you have any more convincing evidence?
JSBolton
Oct 13 2008 at 8:26pm
“the success of a con man augments his panic” Ayn Rand—–this is what I think is to destroy the Obama candidacy. The further the divergence between what he is pretended to be and the truth, the worse the stress and panic for him. The attention of all the world must make it so much worse. He appears so calm, even somnolent and unfeeling, which, for an admitted dope user, indicates heavy dope use appearing as the quote would lead one to expect.
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