Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, discusses an element of public choice theory dubbed the “shortsightedness effect.” Cordato offered these comments during a Nov. 3, 2014, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
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