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16 Oct 2020, 8:57 pm by Ilya Somin
The second, Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy, by economists Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman (RW), perhaps the leading academic critics of LP. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 5:44 am by Eugene Volokh
My friend Glen Whitman posted this to his Facebook page, and I thought it very funny. [read post]
22 Jul 2014, 10:34 am
io9 contributor Greta Christina, after re-watching the second season of “Buffy the Vampire” Slayer, raises serious questions about the ethics of vampire-slaying. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 11:20 am
And I highly recommend this post on "the rape penalty" by Glen Whitman, who asks: "If the death penalty is a problem, then isn't prison rape an even bigger problem? [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 7:05 am
My talk will draw on themes from my chapter on the portrayal of political ignorance in vampire and zombie stories, in the recently published Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science (edited by Glen Whitman and James Dow). [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 8:20 am
But the newly published Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science, edited by law and economics scholars Glen Whitman and James Dow, is changing all that. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 11:43 am
For a more rational approach to issues related to Halloween, you may want to check out The Economics of the Undead, edited by economists Glen Whitman and James Dow. [read post]
29 May 2015, 8:00 am
It all goes back to my contribution to the recent book Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science, edited by law and economics scholars Glen Whitman and James Dow. [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 5:41 am
" An example is this post's title: the well-known formula of "to X or not to X" is a snowclone.The term was coined by linguist Glen Whitman, who noted that a new word was needed to describe the journalistic practice of calling things "the new black" (the snowclone is "X is the new Y"). [read post]
15 May 2014, 12:41 pm
At the risk of engaging in shameless self-promotion, I hope Strategic Command will update the plan based on the research in economists’ Glen Whitman and James Dow’s forthcoming edited volume on the Economics of the Undead. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 9:35 pm by Ilya Somin
Overall, I largely agree with the criticisms of libertarian paternalism in the Cato symposium by Glen Whitman (here and here) and Jonathan Klick. [read post]
16 Jul 2010, 8:53 am by Josh Wright
  But as Glen Whitman points out, the absence of knowledge about true preferences requires that the policy maker make some decisions about actual preferences. [read post]
16 May 2010, 9:05 am by Marc DeGirolami
"  A fragment:      If either [Glen] Beck or [Max] Blumenthal is right about the new populism, then it’s not worth taking seriously. [read post]
1 May 2022, 2:54 pm by Ilya Somin
Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman's recent book  Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy,  provides a compelling exposition of both points (I reviewed it here). [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 2:13 pm by Adam Thierer
As I’ve mentioned here previously, PFF has been rolling out a new series of essays examining proposals that would have the government play a greater role in sustaining struggling media enterprises, “saving journalism,” or promoting more “public interest” content. [read post]