Knowing the Cost

The inestimable law professor Todd Zywicki analyzes a study which suggests that the further left people are, the less they know about economics.

I doubt it—mostly because I doubt all such studies, for the counter-examples are always overwhelming. Still, one’s intuition does move in a certain direction about leftism and economics, doesn’t it?

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