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4 Jun 2015, 8:00 am
However, economist Bryan Caplan has summarized some of the more important conclusions here. [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 5:02 am by Jonathan Rauch
In the work of Ilya Somin, Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Bryan Caplan and others, the literature on flaws in voter decision-making has developed substantially over the past decade or so, to the point where the proposition that populist reforms will produce more representative politics, better governance or a happier public is borderline indefensible. [read post]
6 Jun 2024, 7:20 am by Ilya Somin
Later, the writings of scholars such as Bryan Caplan, Michael Clemens, and Joseph Carens, helped me see that international migration is an even more significant pathway to expanding human freedom and opportunity; not just one liberty among many, but one of the great issues of our time. [read post]
12 Jun 2024, 2:06 pm by Ilya Somin
I also recently wrote about the potentially valuable role of constitutional litigation in breaking down exclusionary zoning in this piece on Bryan Caplan's Bet On It substack.The post New Atlantic Article on "The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning" appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 1:44 pm by Ilya Somin
Economist Bryan Caplan, author of the excellent book Open Borders, has a helpful post making the point in greater detail: I recently finished teaching my Immigration class at the University of Palermo. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 7:40 am
Economist Bryan Caplan extends this logic to other refugees fleeing oppression that hasn’t yet fully materialized. [read post]
31 Dec 2014, 12:02 pm
[Economist] Bryan Caplan argues that people have irrational, systematic biases that they have few incentives to correct and one of them is to underestimate the benefits of the market, like surge pricing. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 10:29 pm by Ilya Somin
For example, research by economist Bryan Caplan shows that most voters have a strong “antiforeign bias” that leads them to greatly overestimate the dangers of foreign influence, trade, and investment, while ignoring most of its benefits. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 10:45 am by Ilya Somin
Here are videos of recent online talks I gave about my book Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration and Political Freedom for the Cato Institute (with commentary by economist Bryan Caplan and immigration law scholar Peter Margulies), and the University of Torcuato Di Tella law faculty Seminar on Law, Economics, and Regulation (Argentina). [read post]
2 Jan 2021, 1:12 pm by Ilya Somin
I summarize some of the relevant data in my book Democracy and Political Ignorance, and here is an earlier review by Bryan Caplan. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 7:03 pm by Ilya Somin
As economist Bryan Caplan outlines, we can instead tap some of the vast wealth created by immigration and transfer it to low-wage native workers, for example by boosting the earned income tax credit. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 12:12 pm by Steve Bainbridge
As for why I am not an Austrian, I refer you to Bryan Caplan's brilliant essay Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 1:20 pm
Large lay-expert disagreements persist even in studies that control for self-interest and ideology, as Bryan Caplan did in his work comparing the views of economists and lay people on economic issues, and we have in our joint work comparing the views of laypeople and political scientists on political influence (coauthored with Eric Crampton and Wayne Grove). [read post]
19 Oct 2022, 1:17 pm by Kyle Hulehan
Skeptics, perhaps most famous among them economist Bryan Caplan of George Mason University, argue that the benefits of a college degree are mostly about “signaling,” not knowledge. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 7:45 am by Ilya Somin
But similar claims are also made by a few libertarians, such as my George Mason University colleague Bryan Caplan, and by some Canadian and British conservatives. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 11:02 am by Tom Smith
 Yet Bryan Caplan implies (I have read -- but I couldn't actually find the place where he said this rather than had just it attributed to him) that one would not be justified in coercing another person to save the drowning child, let's say if for some reason one could not do so oneself. [read post]
21 Dec 2022, 12:55 pm by Ilya Somin
As Nowrasteh notes, a previous review of Jones' book by economist Bryan Caplan points out that it actually justifies vastly increasing immigration to the United States from a wide swathe of the world, including countries with some 50% of the world's population. [read post]
23 May 2008, 2:15 am
In most political debates, people rely on party labels to guide their decisions, as David Schleicher has recently explained in his smart review of Bryan Caplan's new book. [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 7:15 pm by Ilya Somin
Large lay-expert disagreements persist even in studies that control for self-interest and ideology, as Bryan Caplan did in his work comparing the views of economists and lay people on economic issues, and we have in our joint work comparing the views of laypeople and political scientists on political influence (coauthored with Eric Crampton and Wayne Grove). [read post]