I think the median voter has the following preferences concerning
adoption: same race parents parents different race no adoption.
Bryan's point is that adoption workers seem to prefer:
same race parents no adoption parents different race.
The MVT would predict otherwise. I claim that
Fred Foldvary wrote:
The median voter theroem is not supposed to explain all legislation, since
public choice theory also states that there will be rent seeking and
privelege seeking by concentrated interests at the expense of the general
public.
I'm highly dissatisfied with interest
Hi,
What do you consider the best (market-friendly) textbook / reference book on
game theory ? I am considering reading Binmore (Fun and Games) or Gintis
(Game Theory Evolving) but I have the idea they're a bit (to put it mildy)
biased against laissez faire economics.
-aschwin
Robin Hanson wrote:
Yes, I think: people are basically afraid of someone taking their kids,
and people are not in fact very comfortable with trans-racial adoption.
But when people hear about kids being sent back to abusive natural
parents, do they really say/think It's unfortunate, but on
--- Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm highly dissatisfied with interest group explanations. Simple
reason: Most of the policies traditionally blamed on interest groups are
in fact *popular*. Adoption laws seem like a case where existing
policies are not popular, though perhaps I'm
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
I don't think you should focus so much on the median voter theorem.
The logic of median voter theorems is that politicians offer
policies that closely resemble the median voter's desires. This assumes
that politicians have direct influence over the
