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14 Apr 2024, 4:52 pm
[Matt Yglesias and Bryan Caplan offer contrasting theories. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 9:03 pm
(Ilya Somin) Bryan Caplan has a interesting post on George Orwell’s portrayal of democracy in his classic work Animal Farm. [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]
11 Jul 2011, 7:30 am
(Ilya Somin) This Wednesday at 7 PM, I will be debating George Mason University economist and prominent blogger Bryan Caplan on libertarianism and foreign policy. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 5:39 am
(David Bernstein) An excellent post by my friend and GMU economist Bryan Caplan. [read post]
10 May 2010, 9:39 am
I thought I was being creative when I suggested "marital prisons" for spouses who are convicted of felonies, but George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan has a far more interesting proposal that might cut down on prison rape: "Reduce the variance of strength and aggression within single-sex prisons by separating prisoners into something like 'weight classes.'” Brilliant! [read post]
12 May 2010, 1:52 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post, I endorsed economist Bryan Caplan’s “weight class” plan for reducing prison rape by separating prisoners by size and weight. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 10:00 am
Bryan Caplan (George Mason University, Department of Economics), Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think (Basic Books 2011): We've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore. [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 Jun 2008, 7:32 am
Bryan Caplan sums it up:Econ is the highest-paid of all the easy majors. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 9:06 pm
Tributes to Milton Friedman at 100 [Bryan Caplan, Andrew Coulson/Cato] Funny “Chicken Offsets” idea is now live courtesy Ted Frank, more economically sound than most boycotts [earlier on Chick-Fil-A furor here, here, etc.] [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]
23 Mar 2023, 1:43 pm
[Economist Bryan Caplan explains how standard socialist complaints about free markets are similar to longstanding fan claims that Tolkien's Giant Eagles didn't do enough in the war against Sauron.] [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 1:58 pm
., 49Kb) Bryan Caplan Why Should We Restrict Immigration? [read post]
5 Sep 2010, 10:32 pm
(Ilya Somin) At Econlog, GMU economist Bryan Caplan and Princeton economist Bill Dickens have been debating the signaling model of education. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 9:11 pm
(Ilya Somin) Economist Bryan Caplan has an interesting post outlining six types of libertarian arguments against government action — “six stages of libertarian denial,” as he calls it: Libertarians set themselves apart from other political thinkers by habitually denying that government should do things. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 11:39 am
Tyler Cowen often inveighs against the Fallacy of Mood Affiliation:It seems to me that people are first choosing a mood or attitude, and then finding the disparate views which match to that mood and, to themselves, justifying those views by the mood. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 11:45 am
When someone expresses his views with a calm mood, you consider him more reliable than when he expresses his views with an hysterical mood. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 2:27 pm
Bryan Caplan is a weird dude who has the goofy-eye look. [read post]
17 May 2016, 9:05 pm
Not often it seems [Niclas Berggren via Bryan Caplan] China, not unlike our own attorney general-environmentalist alliance, is cracking down on the work of what it deems ideologically harmful nonprofits [ABA Journal] Barking mad: new ABA ethics proposal would deem it professional misconduct for lawyers to discriminate on various grounds, including “socioeconomic status,” in choosing partners, employees and experts [Eugene Volokh, Sara Randazzo/WSJ Law Blog] … [read post]
