William F. Buckley Jr. once said that he would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston phone directory than by the entire faculty of Harvard University.

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

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First line of a Wall Street Journal piece on Brian Caplan’s book (The Myth of the Rational Voter), which mentions in passing James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom Of Crowds (our bible :) ).

Thanks to Fabian John in Germany for the good tip.

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One Response to William F. Buckley Jr. once said that he would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston phone directory than by the entire faculty of Harvard University.

  1. Eric Zitzewitz says:
    July 10, 2007 at 11:32 PM

    Figures he didn’t go for the last 100 names. Too “ethnic” …

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