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Faulty Premises, Faulty Policies by [Gary Galles, Jeffrey A. Tucker]

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Faulty Premises, Faulty Policies by Gary Galles is an incredibly good guide to showing precisely what is nonsensical about political debate.

How many times have you watched a public policy fiasco and been mystified as to how the politicians can believe their own rhetoric? They talk about how raising the minimum wage is going to make the poor better off, even though there is no mechanism in the nature of things to bring about that reality; about how some new war is going to rid the world of despotism, despite knowing that the history of war tends in the opposite direction; about how some new healthcare mandate is going to bring freedom from disease, and yet you know that legislation can’t actually achieve anything like this.

There always seems to be a missing step in the chain of logic. Politicians and pundits actually seem to believe that passing a law will generate a certain wonderful result, even though the relationship between cause and effect is nowhere present. It seems like a giant exercise in fantasy.

Galles has provided an outstanding tool for navigating your way through the sea of folly that is the politics of our time. There is no anger in his prose, and there doesn’t need to be. He has the arguments, the analytics, and the facts — those alone make the case.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Liberty.me (January 21, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 21, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Luis Noriega

Insightful and a MUST READ!

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Very truthful and insightful! A must read for anyone that is interested in Public Choice economics. Dr. Galles does an extraordinary job in explaining his thoughts and ideas in simple terms.

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Excellent collection of Op-Eds!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 9, 2014

This book addresses over one hundred separate issues (dedicating two to four pages each) that are examples of how government policies are often based on misunderstandings and erroneous communication and measurements. I believe this book will make you look at government programs much more carefully in the future. The topics can be read sequentially or you can pick and choose the issues you like. Each topic contains a very perceptive overview of why the resulting policy was ill advised. However, when all of the issues are viewed in their totality, one clearly sees the ramifications and the gravity of America's current approach to government.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 25, 2014

Dr. Galles explains governmental policies in a clear, common sense manner. Highly recommend.

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