I’m in love with the jacket for my book – coming in April, 2007.
Kudos for the Princeton University Press art department.
Leave it to Robin Hanson, of course, to point out that the jacket is more optimistic than the contents. After all, if voters were sheep, the whole herd might converge on the truth!
Oct 16 2006
He says, Do health markets suffer from substantial market failure? My assessment of these markets says the answer is yes and, in particular, the most difficult problem to solve, adverse selection, is the most serious problem plaguing these markets. My preferred solution is a universal coverage single-payer system, but...
Oct 16 2006
Alex Tabarrok asks "Why is Medicine so Primitive?" One reason is that medicine is the largest area of the economy still dominated by artisanal production. I will be blunt: We need assembly line medicine, medicine that is routinized, marked and measured. As I have argued before I would much prefer to be diagnosed b...
Oct 13 2006
I'm in love with the jacket for my book - coming in April, 2007. Kudos for the Princeton University Press art department. Leave it to Robin Hanson, of course, to point out that the jacket is more optimistic than the contents. After all, if voters were sheep, the whole herd might converge on the truth!
READER COMMENTS
Jason Briggeman
Oct 13 2006 at 2:03pm
The sheep appear oddly determined. Maybe it’s because they’ve been told that Every Vote Counts…
dearieme
Oct 13 2006 at 3:00pm
Flock! They’re not a herd but a flock.
Randy Yniguez
Oct 13 2006 at 3:45pm
I thought flocks were for seagulls.
-RY
Randy
Oct 13 2006 at 3:47pm
Great cover. They do seem a bit militant though, don’t they.
Sinclair Davidson
Oct 13 2006 at 4:44pm
Great Cover! Which one’s you? 🙂
John
Oct 13 2006 at 5:54pm
People? You mean Sheeple.
-GWB in the latest South Park episode.
Cover looks great. Can’t wait to read it.
Dr. Tensor
Oct 13 2006 at 10:18pm
Intriguing. I love the sheeple.
Is there some sort of subliminal message I’m missing here? =D
Dr. Tensor
Oct 13 2006 at 10:20pm
I wonder how lemmings would have looked like?
Dennis Mangan
Oct 13 2006 at 11:51pm
I’m sure it will be number 2,363,545 on Amazon in no time.
David
Oct 14 2006 at 1:03am
“After all, if voters were sheep, the whole herd might converge on the truth!”
Here’s the problem. You just have to know how to talk to these sheep. Economists need to try this one:
“Baa ram ewe,
to your sheep,
your fleece,
your clan be true,
ba ram ewe.”
Steve Sailer
Oct 14 2006 at 2:16am
Looks good!
Eric H
Oct 14 2006 at 10:08am
What is it that they say about locking 1,000 sheep in an voting booth for 1,000 years? They might elect Shakespeare, or something to that effect?
eric
Oct 14 2006 at 12:39pm
No black sheep?! What subliminal message does that imply? Black people don’t count? Rare ideas don’t count? White wool is better because it can be dyed black, but not vice versa?
dearieme
Oct 14 2006 at 4:07pm
eric, if they are cloned – like Dolly – none can be black: perhaps that’s the subliminal message?
giovanni
Oct 15 2006 at 8:51am
Sorry, but I don’t like the cover. I’d like a cover that calmly makes an intelligent point rather than a cover that bludgeons you with a very simple point. Everyone knows about irrational voters, bad policies, and obvious flaws in our democratic system. We don’t need such an obnoxious picture to convey that point.
Zac
Oct 15 2006 at 1:09pm
Everyone knows about irrational voters? And the flaws of democracy?
Why, Bryan, according to the last commenter your educational mission is practically complete! Who knew?
Great cover.
bob
Oct 15 2006 at 2:50pm
Bad policies relative to what? What non-democratic alternative is the model according to which democracies should be judged? Are there any historical examples of such a model? Economists are always lecturing people about opportunity costs. What alternative is there?
Patrick Carver
Oct 15 2006 at 6:02pm
If I were a rancher, I would be awfully worried if my sheep gathered together with that expression on their faces.
Dr Anjan Chatterjee
Oct 16 2006 at 9:21am
Excellent- But where’s the herdsman? You can replace this flock with spineless jellyfish in case of banana republics. yes thats becoz banana republics too conduct elections and the dictator rigs to win these hands down!
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