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There are grave problems with a political system that rests upon the fiction of a single general will.

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

democracy Elections, the losers accepting them, and the rules that keep power answerable to voters.

What Brad DeLong actually said

  1. Brad DeLong Economics professor at the University of California
    There are grave problems with a political system that rests upon the fiction that a country has a single general will that everyone shares, and that individual voters choose based on their noisy perception of that general will in which they participate.

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