Bhushir Mankad

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we can think of the voting public very much as we think of financial markets. With the flow of information, values rise and fall, as do investments. In these new political markets, each one of us represents a stock with its own fluctuating price. And each campaign must decide if and how to invest in us. If we merit the investment, then they decide not only what information to feed us but also how much and how to deliver it.
Bhushir Mankad
Voters as stocks
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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