Coming in November: Majority Fools: Irrationality and the Limits of Democracy
by The Editors
October 27th, 2006
On Tuesday, November 7th, American voters will go to the polls for the mid-term elections. On Monday, November 6th, George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan, author of the forthcoming book The Myth of the Rational Voter, will argue that we can't count on voters to make rational decisions in the lead essay of the November Cato Unbound, "Majority Fools: Irrationality and the Limits of Democracy." Brown University philosopher David Estlund, Yale University political scientist Ian Shapiro, and University of Virginia philosopher Loren Lomasky — some of the world's leading experts on democracy and democratic ideals — will grapple with Caplan's provocative argument, and what it means for democracy.
