THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL VOTER?

2008

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Citations in the corpus

Are smarter groups more cooperative? Evidence from prisoner's dilemma experiments, 1959–2003 (2008, unknown): “professional economists on a variety of topics even after controlling for income and political affiliation, while Caplan and Miller (2007) shows that the same is true for more intelligent voters when intelligence is measured through a simple vocabulary test.”
How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science (2017, unknown): “The first is that people are likely to intuitively form wrong beliefs about the best way to run large-scale polities and economies (see, e.g., Caplan, 2007).”
Public sector innovation research: What’s next? (2010, unknown): “This suggests a parallel to public sector organizations, where this accountability is much weaker, indeed it is asymptotically non-existent (Caplan 2006).”
Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, unknown): “People seem to get along quite well with their misperceptions and biases in their daily life (Caplan, 2001b, 2007; Cosmides & Tooby, 1992), but “in a democracy, voters who may have misconceptions about economics can vote for politicians who will implement erroneous and costly policies” (Rubin,…”