(Newport News) - The BB&T Colloquium Series on Capitalism at Christopher Newport University will present a lecture from Dr. Bryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies,” on Monday, October 6, at 3 p.m. in the David Student Union ballroom.  The lecture is free and open to the public.  A reception will follow.

Dr. Caplan, associate professor of economics at George Mason University, earned his B.A. in economics from UC-Berkeley and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton.   His talk will be based upon his book The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies , that was named a “Best Book of 2007” by The Financial Times .  His talk will be most timely in light of the upcoming presidential election.

Dr. Caplan's writings have also been published in the Economics Journal , the Journal of Law & Economics , Social Science Quarterly , the Journal of Public Economics, and Public Choice among others.  He is also a regular contributor to the EconLog blog: http://econlog.econlib.org/

For more information, please contact Dr. Michelle A. Vachris, BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, at (757)594-7719, or mvachris@cnu.edu.

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