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	<title>Comments on: The Trouble with Public Choice: Too Generous to Politicians</title>
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		<title>By: angelia110</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/26/the-trouble-with-public-choice-too-generous-to-politicians/#comment-26922</link>
		<dc:creator>angelia110</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Why Are Politicians Amoral Pimps? &#171; Philosophy On The Mesa</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/26/the-trouble-with-public-choice-too-generous-to-politicians/#comment-26921</link>
		<dc:creator>Why Are Politicians Amoral Pimps? &#171; Philosophy On The Mesa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] democracies have in solving problems. (for various responses to Matt’s query see here and here and Matt’s follow up [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] democracies have in solving problems. (for various responses to Matt’s query see here and here and Matt’s follow up [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Why Are Politicians Amoral Pimps? &#124; Rants &#38; Reasons</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/26/the-trouble-with-public-choice-too-generous-to-politicians/#comment-26920</link>
		<dc:creator>Why Are Politicians Amoral Pimps? &#124; Rants &#38; Reasons</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] democracies have in solving problems. (for various responses to Matt’s query see here and here and Matt’s follow up [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] democracies have in solving problems. (for various responses to Matt’s query see here and here and Matt’s follow up [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Margaret</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/26/the-trouble-with-public-choice-too-generous-to-politicians/#comment-26919</link>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don&#039;t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Margaret&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lotterymegamillions.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lotterymegamillions.net&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don&#39;t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.</p>
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		<title>By: huang</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/26/the-trouble-with-public-choice-too-generous-to-politicians/#comment-26918</link>
		<dc:creator>huang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: huang</title>
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		<dc:creator>huang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: huang</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/26/the-trouble-with-public-choice-too-generous-to-politicians/#comment-26916</link>
		<dc:creator>huang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Eternal truths about those who are attracted to politics &#171; Knowledge Problem</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/26/the-trouble-with-public-choice-too-generous-to-politicians/#comment-26914</link>
		<dc:creator>Eternal truths about those who are attracted to politics &#171; Knowledge Problem</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] processes such as lobbying and rent-seeking, could yield some insights. But Will Wilkinson&#8217;s foray into this discussion is not particularly sanguine; in fact, he contends that by treating politicians as rational agents, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] processes such as lobbying and rent-seeking, could yield some insights. But Will Wilkinson&#8217;s foray into this discussion is not particularly sanguine; in fact, he contends that by treating politicians as rational agents, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: TGGP</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/26/the-trouble-with-public-choice-too-generous-to-politicians/#comment-26915</link>
		<dc:creator>TGGP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That it is possible to get stuck on a local maxima doesn&#039;t mean you are, so evolutionary explanations are not inherently dependent on bounded rationality.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Furthermore, bounded rationality can explain why one animal might BELIEVE a signal, but not why the mutation to send out the signal spread. The benefits for signalling must have exceeded the costs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hanson&#039;s theory is that it is more costly for the inexperienced to signal confidence than the experienced. The experienced learn how to signal credibly. Because they actually are more experienced, it is rational for observers to consider it credible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That it is possible to get stuck on a local maxima doesn&#39;t mean you are, so evolutionary explanations are not inherently dependent on bounded rationality.</p>
<p>Furthermore, bounded rationality can explain why one animal might BELIEVE a signal, but not why the mutation to send out the signal spread. The benefits for signalling must have exceeded the costs.</p>
<p>Hanson&#39;s theory is that it is more costly for the inexperienced to signal confidence than the experienced. The experienced learn how to signal credibly. Because they actually are more experienced, it is rational for observers to consider it credible.</p>
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		<title>By: Neel Krishnaswami</title>
		<link>http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/08/26/the-trouble-with-public-choice-too-generous-to-politicians/#comment-26913</link>
		<dc:creator>Neel Krishnaswami</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Have you read much evolutionary theory? Animals evolve to give signals. If the costs of those signals exceeded the benefits, the mutations responsible would be weeded out.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yes, I have. Evolutionary models describe a form of bounded rationality, not full rational choice -- for example, evolutionary processes can get stuck in local optima, whereas perfectly rational agents will not.  That is, an evolutionary model is an explanation based on a deviation from rational choice.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;If I DON&#039;T signal overconfidence, that indicates that I probably have unusually low confidence. The experienced are more overconfident, so it is rational for observers to infer greater experience on the part of the more confident.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is plausible, but actually establishing that this is a true explanation is very, very difficult. The problem is that this is not a stable solution concept -- you&#039;re assuming that the observer is rational, but the counterparty is not acting strategically. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now, what happens if the counterparty decides to project confidence strategically? And what happens if the observer decides to take into account the possibility that the counterparty is acting strategically, and so on? If you treat the degree of mutual information as a parameter to the model, then the model can predict either that the signal is meaningful or that it&#039;s not meaningful, depending on the degree of common knowledge -- if you don&#039;t iterate, you get the solution you propose, and if you do, then you get the Nash equilibrium. In between, you get a transition depending on exactly how you&#039;ve formulated the game.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This means that you need a method for measuring the degree of common knowledge before you can decide whether this is a true explanation or not. Without out, you have to remember that there&#039;s a word for models that can be tuned to predict anything, based on a hard-to-observe parameter with many plausible values: non-falsifiable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Have you read much evolutionary theory? Animals evolve to give signals. If the costs of those signals exceeded the benefits, the mutations responsible would be weeded out.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, I have. Evolutionary models describe a form of bounded rationality, not full rational choice &#8212; for example, evolutionary processes can get stuck in local optima, whereas perfectly rational agents will not.  That is, an evolutionary model is an explanation based on a deviation from rational choice.</p>
<blockquote><p>If I DON&#39;T signal overconfidence, that indicates that I probably have unusually low confidence. The experienced are more overconfident, so it is rational for observers to infer greater experience on the part of the more confident.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is plausible, but actually establishing that this is a true explanation is very, very difficult. The problem is that this is not a stable solution concept &#8212; you&#39;re assuming that the observer is rational, but the counterparty is not acting strategically. </p>
<p>Now, what happens if the counterparty decides to project confidence strategically? And what happens if the observer decides to take into account the possibility that the counterparty is acting strategically, and so on? If you treat the degree of mutual information as a parameter to the model, then the model can predict either that the signal is meaningful or that it&#39;s not meaningful, depending on the degree of common knowledge &#8212; if you don&#39;t iterate, you get the solution you propose, and if you do, then you get the Nash equilibrium. In between, you get a transition depending on exactly how you&#39;ve formulated the game.</p>
<p>This means that you need a method for measuring the degree of common knowledge before you can decide whether this is a true explanation or not. Without out, you have to remember that there&#39;s a word for models that can be tuned to predict anything, based on a hard-to-observe parameter with many plausible values: non-falsifiable.</p>
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		<title>By: DMonteith</title>
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		<dc:creator>DMonteith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;I&#039;m sure the response to his original post was condescending (I certainly was) but when you say &quot;gosh I just noticed that politicians are horrible, immoral power-mongers!&quot; and then attempt to draw no conclusions about how this might impact the many policies that you endorse that increase that power, I suppose you should expect it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yes, but when you say &quot;gosh, politicians are horrible!&quot; and then fail to note that robber-barons and generals and popes, etc., are also horrible then you&#039;re left sounding libertarian-trite.  I think it&#039;s safe to say that institutions that concentrate power are a permanent fixture in human societies.  Reducing the power of &quot;horrible politicians&quot; just gives other horrible people in positions of power that much more freedom to operate and provides that much more incentive to power-mad assholes to move into alternative institutions and do their thing there.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Given the high barriers to entry into politics, the various advantages that incumbents enjoy, and the preponderance of assholes seeking entry, elections are far from ideal, but they do present a superior way to separate horrible people from power than exists in many other institutions that concentrate power such as religious organizations, corporations, the military, etc.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Many extremely smart people on Yglesias&#039; side seem to pretend that policies will be executed precisely as they imagine them, with no abuse or scope creep.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Well, many extremely smart people on Wilkinson&#039;s side seem to pretend that &quot;smaller government&quot; won&#039;t lead to a game of whack-an-immoral-power-monger with a mallet even smaller than the one we currently have.  &quot;Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty&quot; is trite, too, but a utopian elimination of concentrations of power isn&#039;t one of its prerequisites.   I also think you&#039;ll find that most of the smart people on Yglesias&#039; side are on board with the eternal vigilance bit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>I&#39;m sure the response to his original post was condescending (I certainly was) but when you say &#8220;gosh I just noticed that politicians are horrible, immoral power-mongers!&#8221; and then attempt to draw no conclusions about how this might impact the many policies that you endorse that increase that power, I suppose you should expect it.</i></p>
<p>Yes, but when you say &#8220;gosh, politicians are horrible!&#8221; and then fail to note that robber-barons and generals and popes, etc., are also horrible then you&#39;re left sounding libertarian-trite.  I think it&#39;s safe to say that institutions that concentrate power are a permanent fixture in human societies.  Reducing the power of &#8220;horrible politicians&#8221; just gives other horrible people in positions of power that much more freedom to operate and provides that much more incentive to power-mad assholes to move into alternative institutions and do their thing there.  </p>
<p>Given the high barriers to entry into politics, the various advantages that incumbents enjoy, and the preponderance of assholes seeking entry, elections are far from ideal, but they do present a superior way to separate horrible people from power than exists in many other institutions that concentrate power such as religious organizations, corporations, the military, etc.</p>
<p><i>Many extremely smart people on Yglesias&#39; side seem to pretend that policies will be executed precisely as they imagine them, with no abuse or scope creep.</i></p>
<p>Well, many extremely smart people on Wilkinson&#39;s side seem to pretend that &#8220;smaller government&#8221; won&#39;t lead to a game of whack-an-immoral-power-monger with a mallet even smaller than the one we currently have.  &#8220;Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty&#8221; is trite, too, but a utopian elimination of concentrations of power isn&#39;t one of its prerequisites.   I also think you&#39;ll find that most of the smart people on Yglesias&#39; side are on board with the eternal vigilance bit.</p>
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		<title>By: The welfare state wasn&#8217;t designed to be run by status-obsessed assholes &#124; The League of Ordinary Gentlemen</title>
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		<dc:creator>The welfare state wasn&#8217;t designed to be run by status-obsessed assholes &#124; The League of Ordinary Gentlemen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] late to the discussion of politicians&#8217; unique psychological defects, but this entry from Will Wilkinson caught my eye: The incentives of the political process create a kind of filter that selects for [...]</description>
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		<title>By: TGGP</title>
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		<dc:creator>TGGP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Have you read much evolutionary theory? Animals evolve to give signals. If the costs of those signals exceeded the benefits, the mutations responsible would be weeded out. Then there&#039;s the question of why anyone believes the signals. Signals are not noise, they give actual information, generally because the costs DIFFER depending on how accurate the signal is.  If I DON&#039;T signal overconfidence, that indicates that I probably have unusually low confidence. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/the-latest-jour.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;experienced are more overconfident&lt;/a&gt;, so it is rational for observers to infer greater experience on the part of the more confident.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you read much evolutionary theory? Animals evolve to give signals. If the costs of those signals exceeded the benefits, the mutations responsible would be weeded out. Then there&#39;s the question of why anyone believes the signals. Signals are not noise, they give actual information, generally because the costs DIFFER depending on how accurate the signal is.  If I DON&#39;T signal overconfidence, that indicates that I probably have unusually low confidence. The <a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/the-latest-jour.html" rel="nofollow">experienced are more overconfident</a>, so it is rational for observers to infer greater experience on the part of the more confident.</p>
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		<title>By: Neel Krishnaswami</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neel Krishnaswami</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Costly signals are not incompatible with rational choice. Being costly does not means that costs exceed benefits (on an individual basis). If they did, nobody would engage in them!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is the fallacy of assuming the consequent. The rationality of this behavior is precisely what is in question.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Signals are not credible unless their costs exceed their benefits. If the benefits of a behavior exceed its costs, you have an incentive to engage in this behavior &lt;em&gt;regardless&lt;/em&gt;, and so your opponent cannot infer anything about your true intentions from it.  That&#039;s why talk is cheap.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Signaling is precisely a way to escape the Nash equilibrium: if you give credible evidence that you are not rational, then the common knowledge assumption fails, and so the theorem that says you can&#039;t do better than a Nash equilibrium now no longer holds. Of course, to send such a signal requires...not being rational about costs! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is why Schelling was not a particularly mathematical game theorist. His idea of strategy made heavy use of manipulations of perceptions of rationality -- things which mathematical game theorists had to assume a fixed form for (common knowledge of rationality) in order to get viable solution concepts at all.  This is also why many of Schelling&#039;s suggested strategies are not reflectively stable. For example, he suggests that a winning strategy in the Chicken game (drive two cars straight at each other, with the loser being the one who swerves first) is to remove your steering wheel, so that you have credibly committed to being unable to swerve away. If you do this, and your opponent is rational, then you win the game. However, if both sides do this, you get a crash, which is &lt;em&gt;worse&lt;/em&gt; than the Nash equilibrium.   &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Seriously, read Schelling&#039;s &lt;em&gt;The Strategy of Conflict&lt;/em&gt;. His prose is elegant and clear. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As an aside, this also gives a handy heuristic for judging policy debates: if someone starts talking about &quot;credibility&quot;, that&#039;s basically an admission that their policy&#039;s costs exceed benefits.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Costly signals are not incompatible with rational choice. Being costly does not means that costs exceed benefits (on an individual basis). If they did, nobody would engage in them!</p></blockquote>
<p>This is the fallacy of assuming the consequent. The rationality of this behavior is precisely what is in question.</p>
<p>Signals are not credible unless their costs exceed their benefits. If the benefits of a behavior exceed its costs, you have an incentive to engage in this behavior <em>regardless</em>, and so your opponent cannot infer anything about your true intentions from it.  That&#39;s why talk is cheap.</p>
<p>Signaling is precisely a way to escape the Nash equilibrium: if you give credible evidence that you are not rational, then the common knowledge assumption fails, and so the theorem that says you can&#39;t do better than a Nash equilibrium now no longer holds. Of course, to send such a signal requires&#8230;not being rational about costs! </p>
<p>This is why Schelling was not a particularly mathematical game theorist. His idea of strategy made heavy use of manipulations of perceptions of rationality &#8212; things which mathematical game theorists had to assume a fixed form for (common knowledge of rationality) in order to get viable solution concepts at all.  This is also why many of Schelling&#39;s suggested strategies are not reflectively stable. For example, he suggests that a winning strategy in the Chicken game (drive two cars straight at each other, with the loser being the one who swerves first) is to remove your steering wheel, so that you have credibly committed to being unable to swerve away. If you do this, and your opponent is rational, then you win the game. However, if both sides do this, you get a crash, which is <em>worse</em> than the Nash equilibrium.   </p>
<p>Seriously, read Schelling&#39;s <em>The Strategy of Conflict</em>. His prose is elegant and clear. </p>
<p>As an aside, this also gives a handy heuristic for judging policy debates: if someone starts talking about &#8220;credibility&#8221;, that&#39;s basically an admission that their policy&#39;s costs exceed benefits.</p>
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		<title>By: Inside the twisted minds of politicians : The Uncredible Hallq</title>
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		<dc:creator>Inside the twisted minds of politicians : The Uncredible Hallq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Wilkinson: I too find it hard to get inside the heads of politicians, and I don’t find rational choice assumptions very illuminating in this regard. By insisting that politicians are motivated by considerations no different than businessmen or anybody else, public choice economists have helped slay the pernicious myth that politicians are generally warmly other-regarding public servants. But the economist’s assumption of motivational uniformity fails to capture that politicians do in fact seem to be really odd people who don’t seem to be primarily motivated by the same considerations that motivate most of us most of the time. The incentives of the political process create a kind of filter that selects for individuals extraordinarily fixated on power and status and extraordinarily motivated to keep it. If this is right (anyone know of personality studies of politicans?), then the problem with standard public choice is that it gives too much credit to politicians by assuming they’re like everyone else and therefore it fails to capture just how exceptionally prone politicians are to narcissism, motivated cognition, self-deception, and brazen lying. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Wilkinson: I too find it hard to get inside the heads of politicians, and I don’t find rational choice assumptions very illuminating in this regard. By insisting that politicians are motivated by considerations no different than businessmen or anybody else, public choice economists have helped slay the pernicious myth that politicians are generally warmly other-regarding public servants. But the economist’s assumption of motivational uniformity fails to capture that politicians do in fact seem to be really odd people who don’t seem to be primarily motivated by the same considerations that motivate most of us most of the time. The incentives of the political process create a kind of filter that selects for individuals extraordinarily fixated on power and status and extraordinarily motivated to keep it. If this is right (anyone know of personality studies of politicans?), then the problem with standard public choice is that it gives too much credit to politicians by assuming they’re like everyone else and therefore it fails to capture just how exceptionally prone politicians are to narcissism, motivated cognition, self-deception, and brazen lying. [...]</p>
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