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Sylvia Caras <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:58:27 -0700
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From: "Martin L. Hirschfeld"

"Voting is not a slight variation on shopping," as Caplan puts it. 
"Shoppers have incentives to be rational. Voters do not."

"The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Politics" 
(Princeton; $29.95);
Caplan, Bryan

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/07/09/070709crbo_books_menand?printable=true


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