AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF VOTING AND MOUNTAIN BIKING.

AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF VOTING AND MOUNTAIN BIKING. Both the book by David Tuck and the review by David Runciman that I have discussed for the last couple of days seem to attribute the argument that voting is irrational to the influence of economic thinking on political science. But many economists would not accept the argument that voting is irrational. They would observe that a large number of people find voting attractive, just as a smaller percentage of people enjoy mountain biking. People do lots of things that don’t change the world—including both voting and mountain biking. People vote for all star baseball games as well as for those who govern us. I can think of lots of reasons why they would want to do so.