Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on January 28, 2022
… is from page 2 of my colleague Bryan Caplan’s brilliant 2007 book, The Myth of the Rational Voter:
Economists have long argued that voter ignorance is a predictable response to the fact that one vote doesn’t matter. Why study the issues if you can’t change the outcome? I generalize this insight: Why control your knee-jerk emotional and ideological reactions if you can’t change the outcome?
