how much do you know about the candidates and issues on the ballot? if you are like most americans, probably not much. according to a recent report by the institute for citizens & scholars, only one in three americans (36 percent) can actually pass a multiple choice test consisting of…

a new approach to economic equality — economic inequality is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. the gap between the rich and the poor has been widening in many countries, leading to social unrest, political polarization, and human suffering. how can we address this problem without sacrificing economic efficiency, innovation, and growth? one possible…

there’s a claim that lvt is beneficial because it causes land to be more productively allocated. but this is irrational, because the the measure of “productivity” is just “how much someone will pay for something”, and land is always owned by whoever pays the most for it, by definition. for…

introduction picture this: you get a 100$ gift card for a store you don't really like. you'd prefer the cash, so you could spend it however you want. this is a simple example of what economists call "deadweight loss." in this blog post, we'll use the "gift card fallacy" to help…

one common mistaken anti-utilitarian argument is that the social welfare function ought to be max-min. At the other extreme is the Max-Min, or Rawlsian utility function.[7] According to the Max-Min criterion, welfare is maximized when the utility of those society members that have the least is the greatest. No economic activity will increase social welfare unless it improves the position of the society member that is the worst off.

imagine a theoretical society comprised of 1/3rd left, center, and right factions, electing 300 representatives to the legislature. in a proportional representation form of government, 100 seats are awarded to each of these three factions. now instead imagine we elect all the seats using single-winner districts, with a centroid-finding voting…

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fairvote often makes misleading and false statements. consider this one: Initial evidence from two party primaries in Oregon suggest that voters don’t use the system as it is intended — to express more nuanced preferences — and that fewer votes count in the final round under STAR than in RCV. Findings include: Most STAR voters don’t score multiple candidates. In the 2020 Oregon Independent Party primary, most voters expressed a preference about only one candidate.

political parties historically suffer from “ideological drift”. they have founding principles, but those become muddled over time. to prevent this, i think the party logo should be imbued with a ideological anchors — visual elements that clearly call out the core philosophy. so here’s my dalle-powered rough draft of a logo for the new liberal party/movement. it has four distinctive visual elements, that i think are the best synopsis of the core values of neoliberalism: