Jason Brennan
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Against Democracy
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2016
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Why Not Capitalism?
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2014
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Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know
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2012
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Good Work If You Can Get It: How to Succeed in Academia
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Political Philosophy: An Introduction (Libertarianism.org Guides Book 1)
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2016
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Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests
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2015
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education
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The Ethics of Voting
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2011
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When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice
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Why It's OK to Want to Be Rich
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“In real markets, agents make bad choices. They are often ignorant, misinformed, and irrational. Yet, markets tend to punish agents for making bad choices, and they tend to learn from their mistakes. For instance, if you fail to pay your bills, your credit rating declines and you have a harder time getting loans. If you fail to do research and buy an unreliable car, you suffer from repair bills. In contrast, when people in government make bad choices, the political process almost never punishes them. Studies show that voters are terrible at retrospective voting—they do not know whom to blame for bad government—and so politicians are not punished for making bad choices.”
― Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
― Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
“In civil society, most of my fellow citizens are my civic friends, part of a great cooperative scheme. One of the repugnant features of democracy is that it transforms these people into threats to my well-being. My fellow citizens exercise power over me in risky and incompetent ways. This makes them my civic enemies.”
― Against Democracy
― Against Democracy
“To justify democracy takes more work: we have to explain why some people should have the right to impose bad decisions on others. In particular, as I will show in later chapters, to justify democracy, we’ll need to explain why it’s legitimate to impose incompetently made decisions on innocent people.”
― Against Democracy
― Against Democracy
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