Belief Quote by Bryan Caplan

“In real markets, agents make bad choices. They are often ignorant, misinformed, and irrational. Yet, markets tend to punish agents for making bad choices,…

— Jason Brennan

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of…

— Murray Rothbard

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

— Abhijit Banerjee

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

— Margaret Thatcher

For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“One of the most important but least recognized facts in American politics is that Republicans tend to win in places where more people are…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth…

— Gordon Tullock

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

— Maggie Gallagher

We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are…

— Dan Ariely

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

— Frank Herbert

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

— Erich Fromm

I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival…

— John Yarmuth