Mengakhiri tulisan ini, mari menyimak pesan penting Robert P. Murphy dalam bukunya yang berjudul Lesson for the Young Economist:
It really doesn't matter if the man on the street thinks quantum mechanics is hoax; the physicists can go on with their research without the approval of the average Joe. But if most people believe the minimum wage laws help the poor, or that low interest rates cure a recession, then the trained economists are helpless to avert the damage that these policies will inflict society.
Oleh Zihaul Abdi | Ilmu Ekonomi 2016 | Staf Divisi Kajian KANOPI 2017
Referensi:
TheMyth of the Rational Voter Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan.https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa594.pdf
RationalIgnorance vs. Rational Irrationality http://highmesa.us/ratirnew.pdf
Economics and voter irrationality: my review of The Myth of theRational Voter by Andrew Gelmanhttp://andrewgelman.com/2009/12/27/economics_and_v_1/
The Irrational Consumer: Why Economics Is Dead Wrong About HowWe Make Choiceshttps://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-irrational-consumer-why-economics-is-dead-wrong-about-how-we-make-choices/267255/
The Myth Of The Irrational Voterhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/gleb-tsipursky/the-myth-of-the-irrationa_b_12799464.html
We're rarely rational when we vote because we're rarelyrational, periodhttp://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sapolsky-how-we-decide-how-to-vote-20160403-story.html
