With its bitingly cynical descriptions of majority rule and rational ignorance, Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary exposed the warts of democracy decades before public choice scholars dissected them.
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Robert Higgs is Retired Senior Fellow in Political Economy, Founding Editor and former Editor at Large of The Independent Review.
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| Other Independent Review articles by Robert Higgs | ||
| Fall 2019 | Pressure-Release Valves in Participatory Fascism | |
| Winter 2018/19 | Two Worlds: Politics and Everything Else | |
| Fall 2018 | Against the Whole Concept and Construction of the Balance of International Payments | |
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