Interesting read with some good links. I must confess that I read this headline initially as Freakonomics as An Alternative to Democracy. I clicked through to see what that would have been about. Could have been good times.
Oh yeah, I thought of it the other day.
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539954" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539954</a>