If you want to learn more about public choice, why not fill out an application for the 2008 Public Choice Outreach Seminar? It’s normally in the summer, but this year it’s October 9-11. It’s a great chance to sample the GMU experience. And if you want to see me beat the dead horse of “The Myth of the Rational Voter,” you’re in luck – I’m on the faculty.
Jul 23 2008
Tyler Cowen offers six, not mutually exclusive. For example, 4. Energy becomes very cheap, destruction is easy, deterrence is difficult, power decentralizes, and we retreat to medieval-style fortresses. In my view, the two most interesting variables in forecasting the future are (a) the path of biotechnology; and (b...
Jul 23 2008
Goldin and Katz get more press. "There has been much more growth of inequality among college graduates than among noncollege workers," Katz says. Only some people, he says, are coming out of college with the high-level abstract-reasoning skills that fully complement the new information technologies and command high sa...
Jul 22 2008
If you want to learn more about public choice, why not fill out an application for the 2008 Public Choice Outreach Seminar? It's normally in the summer, but this year it's October 9-11. It's a great chance to sample the GMU experience. And if you want to see me beat the dead horse of "The Myth of the Rational Voter,...
READER COMMENTS
Daniel Corradi
Jul 22 2008 at 3:39pm
I have a passion for Public Choice and read the journal vigorously. Now if only the conference was in Brazil…
hutch
Jul 22 2008 at 4:06pm
gotta love the guy in the che t shirt in the picture.
Dain
Jul 22 2008 at 5:06pm
That guy in the Che shirt is me. You got a problem?
Kidding.
jonathan
Jul 22 2008 at 6:36pm
i wonder if unc will give me the time off…
GU
Jul 22 2008 at 10:27pm
Will any of the transcripts or other materials from this event be available on the internet for those of us who will not be able to make it?
Jose
Jul 24 2008 at 3:49pm
Aldous Huxley might have enjoyed “The Myth of the Rational Voter”.
Check out this gem when you have about 30 minutes to spare…
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/huxley_aldous.html
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