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23 Jun 2011, 7:15 am
(Ilya Somin) In this post, I’m going to take Bryan Caplan’s ideological Turing Test, which requires me to “simulate” an advocate of an ideology I oppose. [read post]
27 May 2007, 2:16 am
Possibly not:In his provocative new book, "The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies," [Bryan] Caplan argues that "voters are worse than ignorant; they are, in a word, irrational â€â [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 10:45 am
., co-sponsored by the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, the Georgetown Federalist Society, and the Federalist Society Faculty Division (with commentary by economist Bryan Caplan, author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, and Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman). [read post]
25 Sep 2013, 8:20 am
October 22, noon-: Georgetown University Law Center, co-sponsored by the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, the Georgetown Federalist Society, and the Federalist Society Faculty Division (with commentary by economist Bryan Caplan, author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, and Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman). [read post]
3 May 2010, 8:24 am
Tyler Cowen, in response to a post from Bryan Caplan, argues: Bryan writes: On adoption: I think that adoption is a noble, generous act, and admire those who do it. [read post]
25 Jul 2018, 11:39 am
Economist Bryan Caplan reminds us that political decentralization has little value unless it is accompanied by mobility. [read post]
ARE WOMEN ENSLAVED BY MODERN PARENTING? I’d say it’s more that women are enslaved by intra-gender s…
24 Apr 2012, 3:04 pm
And as always, I strongly recommend Bryan Caplan’s take. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 8:18 pm
I think Bryan Caplan's (George Mason Economics department) essay Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist to be a concise, (relatively) accessible, and persuasive critique of the Austrian school. [read post]
12 Jun 2009, 3:08 am
Fabio Rojas:Over at Econlog, Bryan Caplan finds it hard to say what is "economics" when economists produce research that has little direct connection to classical economic questions about incentives and trade-offs. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 3:10 am
(Books by GMU profs in bold.)The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert HeilbronerSpin-Free Economics, by Nariman Behravesh*Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman*Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur OkunNudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein*The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman*Animal Spirits, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller*The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan*Economic Gangsters, by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel*The Price of… [read post]
20 May 2018, 9:05 pm
[Bryan Caplan] Tags: alcohol, nanny state, obesity Backdoor regulation of consumers, and its political attractions is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
27 Oct 2013, 11:11 am
But that only works if voters are only rationally ignorant and not, as Bryan Caplan puts it, rationally irrational. [read post]
14 May 2024, 7:15 am
[Privatization of federal and state land is a massive missed opportunity. [read post]
16 May 2024, 7:15 am
[Specificity, fertility, and political assimilation. [read post]
10 Nov 2018, 1:18 pm
Bryan Caplan argues for tighter limitations on the power of government, so that voter ignorance would have less scope to cause harm. [read post]
10 May 2018, 7:05 am
I believe it deserves further consideration - particularly the Bryan Caplan variant, under which it would function only as a positive incentive for increasing knowledge rather than a tool for limiting the franchise. [read post]
13 Jan 2008, 10:05 pm
Come to think of it, while considering political choices, you should also keep handy this Bryan Caplan/WaPo op-ed entitled 5 Myths About Our Ballot-Box Behavior. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 4:35 am
I wonder if Bryan Caplan would consider those who want to regulate payday lending financial illiterates--and approve this "noble lie" as a way of promoting better policy? [read post]
11 Sep 2008, 6:01 am
Yours Truly, Hank Paulson Herbert Spencer got it right long ago (H/T Bryan Caplan): "The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 7:15 am
There will be commentary by economist Bryan Caplan and immigration law scholar Peter Margulies, who recently reviewed the book at the Lawfare website. [read post]
