Yes, as immigrants flooded CA, NY, and all our major cities we saw massive decline in government spending didn’t we. Modern california is just a Cato whit paper ain’t it.
How do you write this stuff without feeling shame?
On the questions about how people come to their political opinions, Randal Holcombe's new book Following Their Leaders argues it's mostly exactly that. But the ideological innocence work in The Myth of Right and Left as well as Neither Liberal Nor Conservative are really interesting too. Probably more interesting than Holcombe, actually. There seem to be more folks writing and thinking about public opinion in systematic aways among political scientists than economists.
Yes, as immigrants flooded CA, NY, and all our major cities we saw massive decline in government spending didn’t we. Modern california is just a Cato whit paper ain’t it.
How do you write this stuff without feeling shame?
On the questions about how people come to their political opinions, Randal Holcombe's new book Following Their Leaders argues it's mostly exactly that. But the ideological innocence work in The Myth of Right and Left as well as Neither Liberal Nor Conservative are really interesting too. Probably more interesting than Holcombe, actually. There seem to be more folks writing and thinking about public opinion in systematic aways among political scientists than economists.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/following-their-leaders/introduction/1C0C501CA30DE6DFEA6398D72EFF3AE8
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo25841664.html