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Now welcome to the award-winning bestofalf podcast with clips today from the majority report

on the media, backstory, the young Turks, and be labored.

Let's talk a little bit about what public choice economics is.

This is where you can sort of, I guess, start it and realize like, hey, I'm going to

get fundamentally more anti-democratic in some respects.

It seems to me.

But start with that, explain that to us.

Okay.

So public choice economics is actually a broader current of political economy.

And there are some liberals who see value in public choice ideas.

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