This paper discusses recent claims made by Caplan (2000, 2001a, 2001b, 2001c, 2002, 2007) who argues that democracies produce bad policies as a result of voters' irrational beliefs. We start by outlining the motives which led Caplan to amend classic Public Choice in such a radical fashion. We...

The article characterizes current ideas on this issue and defines a global paradigm of a managerial system on the principle of living organisms. Using Kuhn's theory of science development, the article characterizes controversial attitudes to knowledge economy and defines a global paradigm for a...