Tag: preferences
Election results: Chocolate chip cookie wins again
December 5, 2016 | Post
Are you one of those people who like raisins in cookies? Too bad.
Democracy limits bad government in the long haul.
December 2, 2016 | Post
The following is the fourth installment in a five-part debate between Jason Brennan and Philip Pettit on the legitimacy of democracy as a system of social order.
Brexit Illustrates Why Voting Is One of the Worst Ways to Make Decisions
August 1, 2016 | Post
Nearly 25 years ago, two scholars—Geoffrey Brennan and Loren Lomasky—published a book that was proved prescient by the recent “Brexit” vote. The book was called Democracy and Decision, and one of its central theses was that “democracy” (if you mean majority rule decisions) is simply not up to the task of making good choices for […]