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24 Mar 2010, 4:08 pm
I think Bryan Caplan and David Henderson are exactly right: the timeline for implementation virtually guarantees a severe adverse selection problem. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 9:23 pm
Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 11:22 pm
Economist Bryan Caplan wonders why socialism ever developed any broad appeal, given the weaknesses of the idea of the “New Socialist Man”: The classic argument against socialism is that it gives people bad incentives. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 8:18 pm
I think Bryan Caplan's (George Mason Economics department) essay Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist to be a concise, (relatively) accessible, and persuasive critique of the Austrian school. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 11:51 pm
Maybe Gollum is an example of Bryan Caplan’s thesis that many seemingly insane people are not irrational, but merely have unusual preferences. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 7:16 pm
During the last massive snowstorm in the DC area in December, George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan wondered why there weren’t any teenagers going around door to door offering snow-shoveling services. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 4:10 pm
” The article generated good responses by Bryan Caplan (here and here), and my fiancee. [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 12:58 pm
My GMU colleague Bryan Caplan points out that this is often not the only or the best strategy for defending liberty: Libertarians often highlight "the right to do wrong. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 10:54 am
The last time the issue came up on the blog was in response to a similar question raised by my George Mason colleague Bryan Caplan (in regard to the new proposed law in Hong Kong). [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 8:33 pm
As a result of this weekend's massive snowstorm in the Washington, DC area, economist Bryan Caplan wonders why he couldn't find anyone to help shovel all that snow: In my neighborhood, many households would pay unskilled workers $30/hour or more to shovel snow. [read post]
5 Dec 2009, 12:48 am
Economist Bryan Caplan has an excellent article explaining how Atlas Shrugged vividly (and often realistically) portrays the dangers that government control of the economy creates for the general public. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 7:56 pm
" My GMU colleague Bryan Caplan helpfully provides the context of these quotes, from Trotsky's 1936 book, The Revolution Betrayed: During these years [since Stalin took power in the USSR] hundreds of Oppositionists, both Russian and foreign, have been shot, or have died of hunger strikes, or have resorted to suicide. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 4:07 am
Bryan Caplan tries to argue that national defense is not a public good. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 1:46 am
Bryan Caplan:The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe is - and will probably remain - the most glorious political event of my life. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 5:56 am
Mike Dorf, Spork Puts New Twist on Old Rules/Standards Question The Superfreakonomics controversy continues (See the first round in Weekend Links): Dubner: The Anatomy of a Smear Brad DeLong's Last Post on SuperFreakonomics … [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 5:58 pm
George Mason economist Bryan Caplan has an interesting post advocating merit-based pay cuts for academics: Many universities now have pay freezes or even nominal pay cuts. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 3:10 am
(Books by GMU profs in bold.)The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert HeilbronerSpin-Free Economics, by Nariman Behravesh*Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman*Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur OkunNudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein*The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman*Animal Spirits, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller*The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan*Economic Gangsters, by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel*The Price of… [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 6:21 pm
In an excellent post, Bryan Caplan points out that childhood is far safer in many ways today compared to 1950, a supposedly idyllic time of "Leave it to Beaver," etc. [read post]
5 Jul 2009, 10:09 pm
Regulation of sectors like health and auto insurance is often explained as an response to market failures arising from adverse selection, but, say Alex Tabarrok and Bryan Caplan, most of the real-world elements of regulation are hard to explain that... [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 2:06 am
George Mason economist Bryan Caplan has some excellent advice on how to increase your "social intelligence. [read post]
