(January 24, 2024 at 3:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 24, 2024 at 1:36 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: The Karl Popper's Principle of Rationality is that the society as a whole behaves as if every individual was rational, because the irrationalities of the individuals cancel each other out. Is that right?
No, that’s not right. It’s that people tend to behave according to their what they perceive is in their own best interests.
Boru
So, Bryan Caplan in "The Myth of Rational Voter" is attacking a straw-man?