The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible - Bastiat Institute

? A politician gets
money from the rich
and he gets votes
from the poor with
the argument that he
is protecting each
from the other.
Chapter 25 • The Applausometer
have swallowed it, it is in the system, and there
is no control over what happens after that.
Background
Ken: There was no particular reason for using
“Elihu Root” here, except the pun (getting back
to one’s roots). I was looking for the name of a
person in US history who was a power behind
a politician, in this case President Theodore
Roosevelt.
Ivan Pavlov conducted experiments which
dealt with conditioning dogs’ behaviour to
salivate at the sound of a ringing bell and thus
the expectation of food. The use of sound can
also train humans – an angry or kindly voice,
loud noises, music, etc. Pavlov’s ideas played a
large role in the Behaviourist theory of human
psychology.
References
In The Law, Frederic Bastiat eloquently dealt
with the subject of voting. The full text of this
book may be seen at: http://www.bastiat.org/en/
the_law.html.
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