Do fiery rhetoric and extreme policies help win elections?

Image: Bundesarchiv via Wikipedia

Things mentioned in this podcast:

- Kaldor-Hicks criterion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaldor%E2%80%93Hicks_efficiency

- ‘That which is seen, and that which is unseen’ (Bastiat) http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html

- Public spending in the UK since 1900 https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/past_spending

- List of UK pressure groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pressure_groups_in_the_United_Kingdom

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