The relationship between voting and robust estimation was discussed by Francis Galton in 1907. His two papers in Nature are discussed and reprinted. Copyright 2002 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

According to our empirical results, voting patterns in the NFR were consistent with the central thesis of an expressive model, that moral expression dominates consequentialist behavior when choice is costless. While consequentialist theory would predict that owners of capital would favor nuclear...

The argument suggests that it is very hard to separate how, in fact, economists use theory and how the subjects of economics use theory. Further, we can explain why, after a dazzling wave of the hands, so much popular discussion of economic policies switches from real-valued considerations to...