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Review title: unfortunate attempt by theorist to reach broader audience
Product review: Don Wittman has written several academic papers challenging many of the basic results in Public Choice that government intervention is inefficient and democracy is dominated by special interests and rent-seekers. His theoretical models are very involved and difficult to follow.This book represents an attempt to discuss his main points without the use of hard-core models and notation. He fails. Wittman makes many broad sweeping statements, then repeatedly states he has just proven something, when it was nothing more than a statement. And not very convinving.This is a shame, as he plays a very important role in offering counters to traditional public choice theory dominated by libertarian ideology. But his arguments here are just not convincing.
