On this episode, we’ll hear a book panel discussion on Randall Holcombe’s book, Following Their Leaders: Political Preferences and Public Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In it, Holcombe examines how expressive voting preferences are determined and how we tend to adopt the preferences of the political elite. The panel is moderated by Christopher J. Coyne, and they are joined on the panel by:

• Roger D. Congleton, Truist Professor of Economics at West Virginia University
• Bobbi Herzberg, Distinguished Senior Fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and a Senior Research Fellow
• Michael C. Munger, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the PPE Certificate Program at Duke University

Randall G. Holcombe is the DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University.

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