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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
Hardcover:
9780465018673 | Basic Books, April 12, 2011, cover price $24.99
Paperback:
9780465028610 | Basic Books, May 8, 2012, cover price $16.99
'Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand. Calling into question our most basic assumptions about American politics, Caplan contends that democracy fails precisely because it does what voters want. Through an analysis of American's voting behavior and opinions on a range of economic issues, he makes the case that noneconomists suffer from four prevailing biases: they underestimate the wisdom of the market mechanism, distrust foreigners, undervalue the benefits of conserving labor, and pessimistically believe the economy is going from bad to worse. Caplan lays out several ways to make democratic government work better
Hardcover:
9780691129426 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 16, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 'Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand.
Paperback:
9780691138732 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 4, 2008, cover price $27.95
Miscellaneous:
9781400828821 | New edition (Princeton Univ Pr, January 15, 2009), cover price $17.95
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