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31 Jul 2012, 4:10 pm by Ilya Somin
Economist Bryan Caplan has posted a thoughtful tribute here: Today would have been Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 4:08 pm by Glen Whitman
I think Bryan Caplan and David Henderson are exactly right: the timeline for implementation virtually guarantees a severe adverse selection problem. [read post]
6 Jun 2022, 10:33 am by Ilya Somin
Later, the writings of scholars such as Bryan Caplan, Michael Clemens, and Joseph Carens, helped me see that international migration is an even more significant pathway to expanding human freedom and opportunity; not just one liberty among many, but one of the great issues of our time. [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 12:58 pm by Ilya Somin
My GMU colleague Bryan Caplan points out that this is often not the only or the best strategy for defending liberty: Libertarians often highlight "the right to do wrong. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 2:13 pm by Ilya Somin
There is a lot of truth to Bryan Caplan's critique of the education system along those lines. [read post]
14 May 2024, 1:22 pm by Ilya Somin
Bryan Caplan's post, linked above, is a good summary of the case for deregulating housing construction. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 10:54 am by Josh Wright
  The last time the issue came up on the blog was in response to a similar question raised by my George Mason colleague Bryan Caplan (in regard to the new proposed law in Hong Kong). [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 11:43 am by Ilya Somin
David Friedman, for instance, famously argued against it in The Machinery of Freedom, and Sasha himself notes Bryan Caplan’s contrary view. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 2:23 pm by Ilya Somin
However, economist Bryan Caplan — a leading scholar on public ignorance — has some reservations about this analysis: If people sincerely believed that their eternal fates hinged on their knowledge of religion, their ignorance wouldn’t be rational. [read post]
15 May 2013, 2:01 pm by David Friedman
---My challenges to Zwolinski and Tomasi on social justice from the Cato Unbound discussion.Discussion started by Bryan Caplan, with comments by me and others, on the problem of defining social justice. [read post]
7 Jul 2018, 3:20 pm by Ilya Somin
I cannot begin to address them all in this post, though I have considered many of the major ones elsewhere (e.g. here and here); see also this excellent analysis by economist Bryan Caplan. [read post]
5 Dec 2009, 12:48 am
Economist Bryan Caplan has an excellent article explaining how Atlas Shrugged vividly (and often realistically) portrays the dangers that government control of the economy creates for the general public. [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 8:38 pm by Ilya Somin
” The former attitude is no less biased than the latter.Finally, it’s worth noting, as Bryan Caplan emphasizes, that we need not choose between limiting immigration and cutting welfare benefits across the board. [read post]
6 Jun 2024, 7:20 am by Ilya Somin
Later, the writings of scholars such as Bryan Caplan, Michael Clemens, and Joseph Carens, helped me see that international migration is an even more significant pathway to expanding human freedom and opportunity; not just one liberty among many, but one of the great issues of our time. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
As libertarian economist Bryan Caplan puts in his comment on Brennan’s post, “Most libertarians ultimately realize that respecting libertarian rights is only a prima facie obligation. [read post]
12 Jun 2024, 2:06 pm by Ilya Somin
I also recently wrote about the potentially valuable role of constitutional litigation in breaking down exclusionary zoning in this piece on Bryan Caplan's Bet On It substack.The post New Atlantic Article on "The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning" appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
Meanwhile, the proposal has also been backed by economist Bryan Caplan (who suggests some improvements), Canadian political commentator Scott Gilmore (I discussed his ideas here), and David Frum, among others. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 1:44 pm by Ilya Somin
Economist Bryan Caplan, author of the excellent book Open Borders, has a helpful post making the point in greater detail: I recently finished teaching my Immigration class at the University of Palermo. [read post]
23 May 2008, 2:15 am
In most political debates, people rely on party labels to guide their decisions, as David Schleicher has recently explained in his smart review of Bryan Caplan's new book. [read post]