Winton Bates

Experience · Researcher, writer, blogger. Freedom and Flourishing. Jan 2007 - Present 18 years 9 months. Australia · Team Leader (Draft Report). Commodity

Since I retired from full-time work in 2006, most of my time has been devoted to researching, writing and blogging on issues related to well-being and liberty.

I am a researcher and writer on freedom and human flourishing. My professional expertise is in economics, with a focus on political institutions,

About me ; Male · Consulting · Economist · Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia · My interest in broad issues relating to human flourishing culminated in 2021 in

Winton Bates. The Myth of the Rational. Voter: Why Democracies. Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan. Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ, 2007. 276pp

I discuss the relevance of the concept of political entrepreneurship to an understanding of political outcomes that have substantially affected personal and

Winton Bates is an Australian economist. He first became professionally involved in broad issues concerning human flourishing in the early 1990s.

Most of my time has been devoted to researching, writing and blogging on issues related to well-being and liberty.