White House scribe on Caplan book

A senior director of the White House Writers Group, Daniel Casse, weighs in on the book by the author interviewed in the article I blogged about here. The gist:

For [Caplan], democracy fails because it doesn’t produce the most economically efficient results. … but then again, American democracy has never been about efficiency. … The Founders cared about letting everyone put in his two cents, even if it meant for messier politics. [American] democracy disappoints Mr. Caplan because it doesn’t rise to the standards of Ludwig von Mises or other libertarian thinkers. Economists may well agree with his thesis, in part because it makes them feel better about themselves. But it should not make ordinary Americans feel any worse about their democracy. Read on…