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31 Mar 2015, 12:21 pm
Aaron Caplan (Loyola) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, plus especially David Greene at EFF. [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 8:20 am
”: Economist Bryan Caplan explains why most of the claimed negative effects of immigration are either greatly overstated, or readily addressed by means less draconian than migration restrictions. [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]
29 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm
[Bryan Caplan] Tweet Tags: agriculture and farming, animal rights, California, Geoffrey Fieger, Prop 65, treesEnvironment roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [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]
4 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm
If more editors handled situations this way, readers would think better of the press: Annalee Newitz of io9 offers “apology and analysis” for running tendentious, ill-reported article attacking animal-based research; Success of personal injury litigation is reshaping nursing home business in some states [WSJ] “With the Advent of Mandatory Paid Sick Leave in California, Here are a Few Sick Leave Excuses” [Coyote, related Massachusetts] Really, it’s not a… [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 9:05 pm
[Bryan Caplan] Defenders of Wisconsin John Doe prosecutor push back against Stuart Taylor investigation [Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via Althouse, more, related on "blue fist" posters and John Doe investigator, earlier] “In Britain, Child’s Weight Leads to Parents’ Arrest” [New York Times in June, King's Lynn 11-year-old; also, Cadbury agrees to "stop making chocolate bars in Britain with more than 250 calories"] … [read post]
13 Sep 2014, 10:23 am
In this recent interview with the Vox website, economist Bryan Caplan does an excellent job of making the case for an open borders policy and addressing standard objections to increasing immigration, such as claims that it will increase welfare spending, harm the native-born poor, and undermine American culture. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 7:15 am
But as economist Bryan Caplan explains in this excellent post, others have great value: I habitually propose remote hypotheticals. [read post]
23 May 2014, 2:54 pm
3 Mar 2014, 8:05 pm
[Bryan Caplan] “Regulation through Boilerplate: An Apologia” [Omri Ben-Shahar, SSRN] Stephen Yeazell on the declining political salience of the tort reform issue [SSRN] The “record of the elite defense bar with regard to the law of expert testimony… not a happy history” [David Bernstein, more] “The Misbegotten Judicial Resistance to the Daubert Revolution” [same] “Turning litigation into a business is corrosive”… [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 8:05 pm
” [Douglas Nejaime, "Cause Lawyers Inside the State," SSRN via Legal Ethics Forum] Gun rights: public opinion has changed over the decades in a big way [Bryan Caplan, Steven Greenhut] “Mostyn Law Firm donates $1 million to help Wendy Davis in Texas governor’s race” [Washington Examiner, New Republic] Plaintiff’s bar supporting GOP primary challenges to Texas Supreme Court incumbents Phil Johnson, Jeff Brown, and Chief Justice Nathan Hecht [TLR] … [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 8:20 am
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]
17 Jan 2014, 7:22 am
This is in a large sense consistent with Bryan Caplan’s work in rational irrationality, which is that in politics (unlike markets) there is essentially no cost to being wrong or holding “incorrect” views, so if you gain any utility from doing so then you will persist in holding those views. [read post]
12 Jan 2014, 8:05 pm
“US Airways has agreed to pay $1.2 million in fines because it provided inadequate wheelchair service at the Charlotte and Philadelphia airports” [Charlotte Observer, USA Today; on abuses of the right to request wheelchair service at airports, see links in our post last May] Support animals on airplanes, cont’d [NYT] In New York, indefinite leave of absence may be deemed a reasonable accommodation that employer is obliged to grant [Erin McPhail Wetty, Seyfarth] Per Second Circuit… [read post]
3 Jan 2014, 7:45 am
In the United States, surveys show that Bryan Caplan’s “anti-market bias” coexists with a considerable suspicion of government. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 4:28 pm
Rowley, June 11, 2002: http://public.econ.duke.edu/Papers//Other/Tower/Protectionism.pdfBryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies,” Cato Institute, Policy Analysis No. 594, May 29, 2007: http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/myth-rational-voter-why-democracies-choose-bad-policies (pp. 1-19)1/28Trade Law and Institutions (U.S.)United States Constitution, Art. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 4:28 pm
Rowley, June 11, 2002: http://public.econ.duke.edu/Papers//Other/Tower/Protectionism.pdfBryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies,” Cato Institute, Policy Analysis No. 594, May 29, 2007: http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/myth-rational-voter-why-democracies-choose-bad-policies (pp. 1-19)1/28Trade Law and Institutions (U.S.)United States Constitution, Art. [read post]
24 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm
” [Jon Hyman] We’d never saddle consumers with the sorts of harassment/discrimination liability we saddle businesses with; let’s consider why [Bryan Caplan] “Special Exemptions: How Unions Operate Above the Law” [Kevin Mooney, CPPC UnionWatch] Should free-marketeers appreciate “alt-labor” (worker centers, etc.) as less coercive than the New Deal union model? [read post]
23 Nov 2013, 1:08 pm
Bryan Caplan (EconLog): The lines indicate the responses to a Gallup survey, which asked “What about the possession of pistols and revolvers — do you think there should be a law which would forbid possession of this type of gun except by the police or other authorized person? [read post]
