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30 May 2012, 7:15 am
Economist David Friedman and Bryan Caplan himself are good examples. [read post]
1 May 2012, 6:45 am
I think Seavey’s critique is overblown, for reasons well articulated by Bryan Caplan. [read post]
13 May 2023, 2:11 pm
The same recent history has given new credence to libertarian critics, such as Bryan Caplan, Jason Brennan, and myself, who argue that voter ignorance is a fundamental structural flaw of democratic processes, one that can only be effectively ameliorated through various types of constraints on the power of democratic majorities. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 11:58 pm
Bryan Caplan raises another option: abolish antitrust. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 12:30 pm
Libertarian economist Bryan Caplan, however, recently argued that a great leader could do a lot more good than most libertarians believe:I maintain that an intelligent, wise, brave president could do enormous good. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 10:10 pm
He learns ours in his spare time — if he chooses to spare it.I tend to agree with Bryan. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 12:31 am
We'll probably use kite power before solar satellites, world population is not proportional to oil production, and hopes for more than a tiny space tourism market anytime soon are pure fantasy.To which Bryan Caplan responds:I've often heard Robin Hanson called a "space cadet" or even a "replicant. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 9:56 pm
But (as Bryan Caplan makes clear, in a generally approving review) there is nothing remotely "free" about the Singaporean health care system: shorthand, it's a mix of compulsory savings and means-tested backup, plus a (dare one say it?) [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 2:59 am
” [Peggy Sastre, Quillette] Heresy hunts in American academia aren’t exactly new, consider what happened fifty years ago to once-lauded “culture of poverty” anthropologist Oscar Lewis [Bryan Caplan] Remarkable glossary of terms “intended to structure and referee conversations on campus” circulates at Amherst College, whose Office of Diversity and Inclusion has a staff of 20, more than one for every hundred of the institution’s 1800… [read post]
2 Mar 2025, 2:34 pm
“He thinks of himself as an introvert,” Bryan Caplan, Cowen’s friend of 30 years told me, “which is almost impossible to believe, given what he does, but it’s actually true. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 5:56 am
Mike Dorf, Spork Puts New Twist on Old Rules/Standards Question The Superfreakonomics controversy continues (See the first round in Weekend Links): Dubner: The Anatomy of a Smear Brad DeLong's Last Post on SuperFreakonomics … [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 1:15 pm
Economist Bryan Caplan calls this kind of behavior "rational irrationality": when the goal of acquiring information is something other than truth-seeking, it is often rational to be highly biased in the way you evaluate what you learn. [read post]
14 Aug 2024, 12:45 pm
In a helpful recent post, economist Bryan Caplan, a leading expert on immigration policy, outlines why Friedman was wrong on this point. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 11:51 pm
Maybe Gollum is an example of Bryan Caplan’s thesis that many seemingly insane people are not irrational, but merely have unusual preferences. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 1:24 am
Hat tip: Bryan Caplan, from whom I stole much of this post. [read post]
6 Nov 2010, 2:52 pm
But as Bryan Caplan points out, the impact of parenthood is minor compared to that of other factors such as ideology, gender, and religion. [read post]
6 May 2010, 9:48 pm
Bryan Caplan’s important 2007 book The Myth of the Rational Voter shows that even liberal Democratic economists are, on average, much more pro-market than the median American (to say nothing of the average self-identified “progressive”). [read post]
25 Apr 2022, 8:05 am
As part of its programming, the Institute sponsors public lectures, and in recent years it has hosted lectures by a range of speakers, including David Brooks, Glenn Loury, Alice Dreger, Michael Sandel, Bari Weiss, and Bryan Caplan. [read post]
2 Oct 2023, 2:36 pm
The Econ Journal Watch underrated articles compendia (see here and here), include many interesting nominations by prominent scholars, including Nick Bostrom, Andrew Gelman, Sam Peltzman, Richard Wagner, Bryan Caplan, Alex Tabarrok, and many others. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 11:04 pm
UPDATE: Bryan Caplan has an interesting post related to this subject here. [read post]
