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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]
17 Feb 2012, 11:02 am by Tom Smith
 Yet Bryan Caplan implies (I have read -- but I couldn't actually find the place where he said this rather than had just it attributed to him) that one would not be justified in coercing another person to save the drowning child, let's say if for some reason one could not do so oneself. [read post]
11 Feb 2012, 3:43 pm by Glenn Reynolds
This seems particularly likely in light of Bryan Caplan’s conclusion that parental “investment” doesn’t make as big a difference as people think. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 1:58 pm by Greg Siskind
., 49Kb) Bryan Caplan Why Should We Restrict Immigration? [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 9:03 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) Bryan Caplan has a interesting post on George Orwell’s portrayal of democracy in his classic work Animal Farm. [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 7:00 am by Patrick Luff
Scholars have provided a variety of explanations to this, but reading Bryan Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter made me think that the trick to explaining why large groups organize in the face of the disincentives Olsen highlights is to check our premises: maybe people aren't acting rationally here, as public choice (and the logic of collective action) assumes. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 7:20 am by Ilya Somin
We have nearly identical scores on Bryan Caplan’s Libertarian Purity Test. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 4:05 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) The audio of my debate with economist Bryan Caplan on libertarianism and foreign policy is now available here. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 7:30 am by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) This Wednesday at 7 PM, I will be debating George Mason University economist and prominent blogger Bryan Caplan on libertarianism and foreign policy. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 10:15 am by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) On July 13 at 7 PM, I will be debating George Mason University economist and prominent blogger Bryan Caplan on libertarianism and foreign policy. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 7:45 am by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) Inspired by Bryan Caplan’s ideological Turing Test, atheist blogger Leah Libresco proposes a religious Turing test to measure the extent to which Christians and atheists understand the arguments of the other side [HT: Bryan Caplan]:Just like Caplan, I’d like to put my money where my mouth is and play in an ideological Turing Test against a Christian blogger. [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]
23 Jun 2011, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
(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]
22 Jun 2011, 10:10 pm by Ilya Somin
He learns ours in his spare time — if he chooses to spare it.I tend to agree with Bryan. [read post]