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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
30 May 2012, 7:15 am
Economist David Friedman and Bryan Caplan himself are good examples. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 2:21 pm
It also does not incorporate Bryan Caplan’s theory of “rational irrationality” (which he had not yet published). [read post]
1 May 2012, 6:45 am
I think Seavey’s critique is overblown, for reasons well articulated by Bryan Caplan. [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]
7 Aug 2008, 11:58 pm
Bryan Caplan raises another option: abolish antitrust. [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]
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]
22 Jan 2011, 6:56 am
Speaking of liberal bias in the media, Bryan Caplan thinks we need to look at bias in the school system as well. [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]
12 Aug 2010, 11:10 am
This could be good because the natural instincts of voters are often irrationally skewed in ways that are inimical to social welfare, see, for example, Bryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter,” and companies may have strong incentives to counter these biases against free trade, markets, foreigners, and so on. [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]
