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James Buchanan's ideas and Koch money are the subject of Nancy MacLean's 2017 book "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan fo

• nickff 6y ago
  "Democracy in Chains" is irredeemably flawed, and has been completely discredited by a series of prominent reviewers.[1][2] There are many more reviews which reveal the scope of fabrication in this book, but it suffices to say that the work should be considered 'fiction', perhaps in the 'fantasy' category. [1] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jel.20181502 https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jel.20181502 [2] https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/jack_rakove_reviews_dem.. https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/jack_rakove_reviews_dem.... [3] https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/14/15967788/democrac.. https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/14/15967788/democrac....