{"id":174,"date":"2007-09-05T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=174"},"modified":"2022-06-10T21:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:40:03","slug":"174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Caplan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nearly all modern economic theories of politics begin by assuming that the typical citizen understands economics and votes accordingly\u2014at least on average. [\u2026] In stark contrast, introductory economics courses still tacitly assume that students arrive with biased beliefs, and try to set them straight, leading to better policy. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>What a striking situation: As researchers, economists do not mention systematically biased economic beliefs; as teachers, they take their existence for granted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bryan Caplan, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0691129428\/002-8961857-8185647?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=famouspeoplewith&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0691129428\">The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies<\/a><\/em>, Princeton, 2007, p. 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly all modern economic theories of politics begin by assuming that the typical citizen understands economics and votes accordingly\u2014at least on average. [\u2026] In stark contrast, introductory economics courses still tacitly assume that students arrive with biased beliefs, and try to set them straight, leading to better policy. [\u2026] What a striking situation: As researchers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[1395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}