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What, Me Vote?

What, Me Vote?

Yet another puzzle for mainstream economists....why don’t people vote? In his National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, “What, Me Vote?”  Richard Freeman finds that despite legal and regulatory changes designed to reduce the cost of voting, the proportion of the voting age that actually vote is declining.

Huum...maybe the benefits of voting have declined. Can I get a Nobel Prize for that?

 

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