The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. Bryan Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand. He takes an unflinching look at how people who vote under the influence of false beliefs ultimately end up with government that delivers lousy results. This thought-provoking book is sure to spark a long-overdue reappraisal of our elective system. The book is published by Princeton University Press.

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