Thanks for this great post. I really appreciated both papers.
However, they made me think about the anti-populist literature in economics (some technocratic checks on majority rule are usually well accepted for fiscal and monetary policies), political science and philosophy—like the Federalist Papers, or, more recently, Garrett Jones’s 10% Less Democracy.
Of course, I’m pretty sure democracy is better for the unrepresented than individual decisions made in a market, even if you have some altruistic actors advocating for selfless considerations… but I’m still quite puzzled about under what conditions does collective deliberation bend towards (or away from) altruistic or long-term reasoning.
The constitution and supreme courts are also important. For example, the first few Muslim bans by Trump were found unconstitutional: these decisions represented the interests of non-voting foreigners.
Thanks for this great post. I really appreciated both papers. However, they made me think about the anti-populist literature in economics (some technocratic checks on majority rule are usually well accepted for fiscal and monetary policies), political science and philosophy—like the Federalist Papers, or, more recently, Garrett Jones’s 10% Less Democracy. Of course, I’m pretty sure democracy is better for the unrepresented than individual decisions made in a market, even if you have some altruistic actors advocating for selfless considerations… but I’m still quite puzzled about under what conditions does collective deliberation bend towards (or away from) altruistic or long-term reasoning.
The constitution and supreme courts are also important. For example, the first few Muslim bans by Trump were found unconstitutional: these decisions represented the interests of non-voting foreigners.
On the other hand, a woman in Switzerland was denied citizenship through a vote: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/switzerland-citizenship-nancy-holten/513212/