*Who Thinks Like an Economist?*

Short summary

A book by Beatrice Magistro finds that economic knowledge predicts support for welfare-enhancing policies like Eurozone membership, free trade, and EU immigration, regardless of personal gain or loss from globalization. This challenges self-interest-based accounts of policy preferences and highlights the role of economic literacy in shaping political attitudes. The post is a brief pointer to the book with no substantive analysis.

• •Economic literacy predicts support for pro-globalization policies independent of self-interest
• •Challenges conventional self-interest accounts of political preferences
• •Brief blog pointer to Magistro's book with minimal detail

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