Search for: "Bryan Caplan"
Results 121 - 140
of 196
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
16 Nov 2015, 9:05 pm
What that says about the welfare state [Bryan Caplan] “Jury awards $16.7 million in swine flu death of pregnant Puyallup mother” [Tacoma News-Tribune] Doc convicted of murder after patient overdoses: “Some experts worried that a conviction would have a chilling effect on worried doctors and keep powerful painkillers from patients who need them. [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]
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]
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]
2 Jul 2019, 6:23 am
Caplan of Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLCDefendant: Mark Calderon, Pyramid Entertainment Group, Inc. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 5:43 am
Meanwhile, my friend Bryan Caplan criticizes my argument (read the original essay here) that Title II was justified on libertarian grounds to break up the Jim Crow cartel. [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 12:26 pm
In 2021, economist Bryan Caplan pointed out methodological errors in the authors' calculations, which—when corrected—showed they greatly underestimated the negative effects of zoning. [read post]
8 May 2010, 11:33 pm
My George Mason colleague, economist Bryan Caplan, has an interesting proposal that might reduce prison rape without running into the sorts of political obstacles that usually make the issue so intractable: Why do we have separate men’s and women’s prisons? [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 7:56 pm
" My GMU colleague Bryan Caplan helpfully provides the context of these quotes, from Trotsky's 1936 book, The Revolution Betrayed: During these years [since Stalin took power in the USSR] hundreds of Oppositionists, both Russian and foreign, have been shot, or have died of hunger strikes, or have resorted to suicide. [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 3:02 am
His manipulative speech in the Leopold/Loeb case leaves you to wonder whether much will outlive the hype [Bryan Caplan] Federal aid-to-state programs have exploded in recent years, a good way to redistribute money and power into the hands of political elites with little taxpayer or voter accountability [Chris Edwards, Cato, new study and blog post] Dear Caterpillar: do you think there is much likelihood of consumer confusion about whether this coffee shop t-shirt is promoting… [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]
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]
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]
17 Jan 2025, 7:57 am
Bryan Caplan. [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]
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]
3 Aug 2011, 7:20 am
We have nearly identical scores on Bryan Caplan’s Libertarian Purity Test. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 11:57 pm
Here's Bryan Caplan's take.Is gay marriage about to spill into other states? [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 4:29 am
“FDA, FTC crack down on caffeinated alcoholic drinks” [WaPo] Flap over Justice Alito’s attendance at conservative magazine’s dinner may be much ado about nothing [Steele, Legal Ethics Forum] “Cops Threaten Mom for Letting [8 Year Old] Son Play Outside” [Free-Range Kids] Contrary to some assertions, American courts from early on did recognize that tort liability could run into First Amendment constitutional limits [Eugene Volokh, Iowa Law Review, PDF] Woman… [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]
