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Caplan’s Parental Experience

Bryan opens a recent post by saying: My eldest sons just turned ten, which means I’ve been a father for ten years. Ergo, it’s time to inventory the top things I’ve learned from my decade of experience....

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Why Aren’t There More Libertarian Girls?

Oh wow, this issue is exploding. Tom Woods expresses his feelings, and Bryan Caplan weighs in. In case you haven’t seen it, this is the video that annoyed Steve Horwitz and Sarah Skwire: I am going to...

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Great Posts on the Minimum Wage

It’s reassuring to see that if I ever decided to retire to the Caribbean permanently, my US-based free-market colleagues would carry forward the torch of liberty. Here are some great posts on the...

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Two Views (?) On Using Bets to Test Economic Theories

Back in December, when Brad DeLong said I needed to study at the feet of Krugman because I lost an inflation bet to David R. Henderson, and then Bryan Caplan objected to the tone of the statements,...

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Bryan Caplan Values His Body Far Too Cheaply

I was very much enjoying the latest skirmish between Tyler Cowen and Bryan Caplan–no matter who loses, I win–when I was astounded by this argument from Bryan, to drive home his point about how awful...

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==> David R. Henderson on the Nobel. ==> When reading posts like this from Bryan, I wonder if he hands out the syllabus on the first day of class that just says “YOU WILL GET NOTHING FROM THIS...

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Two Kitten Torturing Models of Wage Differentials

Suppose you read a blog post that started like this: It is well known that if you run a regression analysis of wages, you will find that if a person tortured kittens as a teenager, then he or she will...

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==> Mario Rizzo stands up for economic freedom and tolerance. ==> A few people have told me to highlight this apparent Krugman Kontradiction on unemployment benefits and job search (scroll down a...

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Truth Is Stranger Than Bryan Caplan’s Fiction

From my new post at Mises Canada: Caplan then goes on in his post to lament the odd fact that people do not respond to this potential of trillions of dollars in global wealth (via labor mobility) the...

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Someone Has to Remind Bryan Caplan That No Such Thing as Utils

One of the issues in Bryan Caplan’s famous “Why I’m Not An Austrian Economist” essay (even though he had been one when he was younger) is the issue of cardinal utility functions. A lot of Rothbardians...

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