Analysing Hypocracy
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2007
(HT: Econlog) Politicians want voters to have a positively-biased view of themselves. Consequently, voters learn more about politicians from their failings than from their good deeds. Barack Obama, for example, smokes. If being known as a smoker was politically beneficial to a candidate then we couldn’t know if Obama really enjoyed smoking or if he […]
