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26 Nov 2006, 12:31 am
  Bryan Caplan tries to minimize this problem, but I am only partially persuaded. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 7:10 am by Ilya Somin
AAC has also done a number of interesting recent interviews with other public policy experts and commentators, including economist Bryan Caplan, Juan Williams, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, Ronald Bailey of Reason, and others. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 10:53 am by David Friedman
I am speaking on anarcho-capitalism, along with Bryan Caplan, at 6 P.M. [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” And once workers hit that age their employment levels drop by a third [Alex Tabarrok] More: Bryan Caplan; I’m quoted on how Fair Labor Standards Act’s pressure to impose 9 to 5 clock-punching regime pulls in opposite direction from modern trends in workplace organization [Karl Herchenroeder, PJ Media] Podcast on latest developments in Department of Labor overtime rules [Federalist Society with Tammy McCutchen] One thing Seattle was doing with its minimum… [read post]
6 Nov 2006, 2:47 pm
Bryan Caplan, whose work I greatly admire, argues that public choice is too optimistic about the operation of democracy: Public choice economists are used to blaming what they call "rational ignorance. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 3:19 pm by Glen Whitman
Specifically, I noted (following Bryan Caplan and David Henderson) that guaranteed issue appears to kick in three years before the individual mandate – which, if true, would set in motion a rather severe adverse selection problem.But now I’m not sure that’s the timing after all. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
The beet grows on: some unintended consequences of mid-century sugar regulation [Chad Syverson via Bryan Caplan, EconLib] Veteran Houston attorney charged with misdemeanor assault “for slapping a plaintiff’s attorney before a deposition. [read post]
23 Feb 2020, 6:55 am
Bryan Caplan, a libertarian economist at George Mason University, makes the radical pro-immigration argument that others don’t. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 11:22 pm by Ilya Somin
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]
14 May 2007, 12:01 am
Bryan Caplan seeks to reorient our thinking about why democracies adopt undesirable policies. [read post]
13 May 2024, 7:30 am by Bryan Caplan
A non-fiction graphic novel, the latest Caplan book combines words and pictures to make academic research on housing an edge-of-your-seat experience. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 8:31 am by Mike Rappaport
Bryan Caplan, a hard core libertarian, has a good post making out the case for conservatism in favor of libertarianism. [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 2:39 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) Law professor David Pimentel has an interesting article detailing the ways in which law and social norms have evolved to the point where perfectly ordinary parenting practices can land you in prison or at least subject you to an expensive lawsuit or prolonged official harrasment [HT: Bryan Caplan and Katherine Mangu-Ward]. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 4:10 pm by Ilya Somin
” The article generated good responses by Bryan Caplan (here and here), and my fiancee. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 5:15 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) Reactions to my attempt to take Bryan Caplan’s ideological Turing test by simulating liberal arguments varied widely. [read post]
2 May 2012, 8:41 pm by Ilya Somin
” They also comment on critics like David Friedman, Bryan Caplan, Mike Rappaport, and Todd Seavey, who have expressed related concerns. [read post]
15 May 2024, 7:15 am by Bryan Caplan
[Checking the credibility of Hsieh-Moretti the lazy way. [read post]
27 Oct 2013, 1:23 pm by Ilya Somin
The question of whether ignorance matters independently of irrationality is one that I have long debated with Bryan Caplan, author of The Myth of the Rational Voter. [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 8:20 am by Ilya Somin
His George Mason Economics Department colleague Bryan Caplan responds that, in reality, most people aren’t dismissive enough: I’m tempted to object, “Thank goodness for dismissal, because most ideas and thinkers are a waste of time. [read post]