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4 Jan 2024, 4:00 pm
Some of these points are likely compatible with Bryan Caplan's views, laid out in his book. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 4:07 am
Bryan Caplan tries to argue that national defense is not a public good. [read post]
16 Jan 2008, 2:37 pm
Hat tip: Bryan Caplan. [read post]
18 May 2007, 7:28 am
IN THE MAIL: Bryan Caplan's new book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 7:45 am
(Ilya Somin) Inspired by Bryan Caplan’s ideological Turing Test, atheist blogger Leah Libresco proposes a religious Turing test to measure the extent to which Christians and atheists understand the arguments of the other side [HT: Bryan Caplan]:Just like Caplan, I’d like to put my money where my mouth is and play in an ideological Turing Test against a Christian blogger. [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 3:02 am
Bryan Caplan and Arthur Brooks on international adoption, the Hague Convention, and Type I and Type II error [Caplan/EconLog, Brooks/NYT] It’s about the pecking order: enrolling a 3-month-old chicken in a “distinguished lawyer” marketing program [Conrad Saam] West Baltimore police checkpoints, Montgomery County rent control proposals, taxes, regulations, gerrymandering and more in my latest Maryland policy roundup [Free State Notes] Also from me:… [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 10:15 am
(Ilya Somin) On July 13 at 7 PM, I will be debating George Mason University economist and prominent blogger Bryan Caplan on libertarianism and foreign policy. [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]
14 Apr 2024, 4:52 pm
[Matt Yglesias and Bryan Caplan offer contrasting theories. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 5:39 am
(David Bernstein) An excellent post by my friend and GMU economist Bryan Caplan. [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]
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]
