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Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute. Caplan's articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Law and Economics, Social Science Quarterly, and numerous other outlets. His webpage, http://www.bcaplan.com, features both his academic research and his numerous other interests, including the online Museum of Communism.

Bryan Caplan co-edits EconLog, along with Arnold Kling and David Henderson

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Recent EconLog Articles by Bryan Caplan

January 2009

What's Wrong With the Cartoon Guide to American History
2009/01/05
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Who Are These People?
2009/01/03
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Wages of the Dead
2009/01/01
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The Crisis Prophet Speaks
2009/01/01
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December 2008

Try This on Your Favorite Curmudgeons
2008/12/31
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Tyrannicide: Now in a Theater Near You
2008/12/31
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I Refused to Shake His Hand
2008/12/30
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The Law: Going from Bad to Worse
2008/12/25
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History + Comedy = Rothbard
2008/12/24
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Education, Ideology, and Awkward Weddings
2008/12/23
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Separating Twins as Economic Illiteracy
2008/12/22
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If You Want Peace, Prepare for Peace
2008/12/17
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Best Passage in Years Containing the Words "Absolute Certainty"
2008/12/17
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Dreaming the Simonian Dream
2008/12/16
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Longevity and the Work Ethic
2008/12/16
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New Deal Panel
2008/12/16
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Bruer Update
2008/12/16
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Where Are All the Jerks in My Life?
2008/12/14
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Cold Spouses
2008/12/12
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What's Wrong With Urban Politics?
2008/12/11
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Schleicher's Model of One-Party Democracy
2008/12/10
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The Puzzle of One-Party Democracy
2008/12/10
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The Immortal Dilemma
2008/12/09
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Neuroscience and Policy: Bait and Switch
2008/12/09
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The Painted Veil: Best Gender Conflict Scene Ever
2008/12/08
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All You Ever Needed to Know About Nationalism, but Were Afraid to Ask
2008/12/07
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Crisis Prophet
2008/12/05
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Moderate Muslim Malaysia: What I Saw
2008/12/04
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Great White Parenthetical
2008/12/03
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Kane's Pledge
2008/12/03
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The Immigrant in My Basement
2008/12/02
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Best Banking: Animal Analogy Ever
2008/12/01
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Return to Neptune, III: Do Tax Breaks Mimic the Market?
2008/12/01
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Return to Neptune, II: The Corporate Income Tax
2008/12/01
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Return to Neptune, I: Incidence
2008/12/01
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He is a Pirate King
2008/12/01
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November 2008

Becker Embraces Unhappiness Research
2008/11/29
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Spotted on the Walls of the Singapore Civil Service College Conference Room
2008/11/29
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Democracy in Singapore: How Is One-Party Rule Possible?
2008/11/28
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Singapore Gives Thanks
2008/11/27
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Roderick Long and the Tiny Gnomes from Neptune
2008/11/26
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Singapore's Policy Secret: Economic Literacy, Deference, or Resignation?
2008/11/26
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Singapore: Where Do I Start?
2008/11/26
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From the Cutting Room Floor: The Rationality of Donors
2008/11/14
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From the Cutting Room Floor: The Rationality of Juries
2008/11/14
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The Lorelai Paradox
2008/11/13
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Hamilton Scoffs at Deflation and the Liquidity Trap
2008/11/13
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How Are Stocks Like Bonds?
2008/11/13
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When Do You Disbelieve a "Change of Heart"?
2008/11/12
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Hoover Blasts His Opponents
2008/11/12
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"The American Disease": View from 1989
2008/11/12
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Hoover Sings His Own Praises
2008/11/11
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Mr. Caplan Goes to Singapore
2008/11/11
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What If I Were Dr. Doom?
2008/11/10
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Twilight of the Twilight of the Gods
2008/11/10
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Why the Left Should Not Forgive the American Voter
2008/11/07
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In Defense of Rationalist Clubs
2008/11/07
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Reword This Question
2008/11/06
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Compensation for Immigration
2008/11/06
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Are Economists As Smart as They Think They Are?
2008/11/05
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Hoover: The Myth of Free Trade
2008/11/05
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Epicurus and Elections
2008/11/05
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The Pump, the Pension, and the Pain
2008/11/05
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How McCain Could Have Won
2008/11/04
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Watch Walter Block Defend Common Sense, Part 2
2008/11/03
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Watch Walter Block Defend Common Sense
2008/11/03
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Block and Me on FRB
2008/11/03
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What Did Hoover Say, and When Did He Say It? Unraveling Rothbard's Mysterious Footnote
2008/11/03
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October 2008

Left versus Right: What's the Big Deal?
2008/10/31
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If This is Polite Society, What is Rude Society Like?
2008/10/29
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Channel Charles Murray
2008/10/29
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Stossel Parody
2008/10/29
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Corrupt Bargains
2008/10/28
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Are We in a Liquidity Trap After All?
2008/10/28
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Where Is the Political Flynn Effect?
2008/10/26
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Government Conspiracy to Silence Mankiw
2008/10/26
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Precogs at the Onion
2008/10/26
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Whatever Happened to Gridlock?
2008/10/25
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Recession During the Cold War: What Was It Like? What's Wrong With Us Now?
2008/10/25
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We're Not in a Liquidity Trap
2008/10/24
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Tabarrok Truth-Tracker
2008/10/24
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The Underground Economist
2008/10/24
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EconLog Welcomes Guest Blogger David Henderson
2008/10/24
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Economic Crisis: Lessons from 1932
2008/10/23
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Department of "What?"
2008/10/21
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Is Obama the Next FDR?
2008/10/21
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How to Scare a Kid
2008/10/21
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Why Don't the Chinese Learn from Singapore?
2008/10/20
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Taxation Under Tiebout
2008/10/20
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Why Are Bartenders So Rude?
2008/10/18
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Becker on the Pundits that Cried "Wolf!"
2008/10/17
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Sub-Prime Education
2008/10/16
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Gasoline Delivery: Inside the Black Box
2008/10/16
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Murray and Me
2008/10/14
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Klein Answers the Davos Question
2008/10/14
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Howard Stern Gets Hansonian
2008/10/13
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Paul's Nobel: Nicht Ein Unrecht
2008/10/13
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Panic Puzzle
2008/10/12
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Scratch Beginnings and the Philosophy of Immigration
2008/10/12
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Chuck's Great Question
2008/10/10
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Stossel and Me
2008/10/10
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Why Charles Murray Should Take Signaling Seriously
2008/10/10
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Why Do People Keep Calling Tyler a Market Fundamentalist?
2008/10/09
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Bet Update
2008/10/09
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See Blindness
2008/10/08
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Frankly Fundamentalist
2008/10/08
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The Bailout Will Lose Money, and I'm Ready to Bet On It
2008/10/07
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China's Unsung Pollution Problem
2008/10/07
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What Samuelson Said About Inflation in the 70s
2008/10/07
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Is Ignorant Dogmatism Possible? I'm Afraid So.
2008/10/03
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What If the Median Voter Were a Failing Student?
2008/10/03
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Economists' Bipartisan Bailout Opposition
2008/10/02
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Another Deleted Scene from MRV: The Benefits of Overestimating the Dangers of Inflation
2008/10/02
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What the Bail-Out Crowded Out
2008/10/01
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September 2008

Son of Chrysler: The Stealth Bail-Out
2008/09/30
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Paulson as a High-Pressure Telemarketer
2008/09/30
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How Would We Know If a Bail-Out Worked? Take Your Stand
2008/09/30
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Public Opinion and the Bail-Out
2008/09/29
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Canadian Caplania
2008/09/29
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I Don't Want to Be a Paul Ehrlich
2008/09/29
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Political Put-Down of the Year
2008/09/29
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Opposition to the Bail-Out: Strange Bedfellows
2008/09/28
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Getting to Bet
2008/09/28
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Why Did Financial Markets Like Nixon's Price Controls?
2008/09/26
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Nailing Down a Kessler Bet
2008/09/26
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Will the Paulson Plan Turn a Profit? Let's Bet
2008/09/25
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Heinlein on Voting: Would You Bet Your Life On It?
2008/09/25
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Is the Bail-Out Based on Debt Illusion?
2008/09/25
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Ridiculous Regs the Median Voter Doesn't Want
2008/09/25
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The Experts Strike Back
2008/09/23
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I'm Going to See Singapore for Myself!
2008/09/23
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Hunger in Maus
2008/09/23
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Where Are the Demagogues When You Need Them?
2008/09/21
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Why Only Bush Could Bring Socialism to America
2008/09/21
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SEC Demagoguery
2008/09/19
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Klein, Clark, and the Liberty Maxim
2008/09/19
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Two Interesting Things James Hamilton Told Me
2008/09/18
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An Ex Ante Aneurysm
2008/09/17
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Who Said It?
2008/09/17
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Nudging Marriage
2008/09/16
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Twilight of the Idols
2008/09/14
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A Deleted Scene from MRV
2008/09/11
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When Is It Wrong To Vote?
2008/09/11
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In Praise of Corny Canadian Politicians
2008/09/11
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Putin's Textbooks; or, Why Russians Should Embrace Russophobia
2008/09/11
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Mankiw, Tyler, and Me
2008/09/09
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How Banking Panics Worked Before the Fed
2008/09/09
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What's the Legal Basis for the Freddie/Fannie Takeover?
2008/09/08
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Give Me Some Fair Questions
2008/09/08
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How Dems and Reps Differ: Against the Conventional Wisdom
2008/09/07
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Do I Take Teasing Too Seriously?
2008/09/04
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The Binary Fallacy
2008/09/04
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Two Arguments for Democratic Failure that Don't Convince Me
2008/09/02
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Pete Leeson Guest Blogging at Freakonomics
2008/09/02
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August 2008

A Deeper Look at Economic Bias
2008/08/29
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Public Opinion About Trade in the Muslim World
2008/08/28
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Mining Mill
2008/08/28
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Fear of Looking Rich Redux
2008/08/27
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My Answers to My Questions for Civil Libertarian Economists
2008/08/27
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The Myth of the Rational Voter Now in Paperback
2008/08/26
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Questions for Civil Libertarian Economists
2008/08/25
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Are Refineries Really a Bottleneck?
2008/08/24
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Raise Your Standards, Control Yourself
2008/08/22
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Hail Scott Adams
2008/08/22
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Remembering '68
2008/08/21
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Is Arnold Getting Happy?
2008/08/21
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In Defense of the Obvious
2008/08/20
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How Schooling is Like Garbage Collection
2008/08/19
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Let Immigration Be My Hammer
2008/08/18
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Charles Murray's Solution to Signaling
2008/08/18
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The Anti-Hansonian Heuristic
2008/08/18
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How Evil is that Sheep?
2008/08/12
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Kids, Opera, and Local Status
2008/08/12
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There's No Evidence Like No Evidence
2008/08/11
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Optimal Citation in the Google Age
2008/08/11
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Tom Strong, Compelling Coasean Comics Character
2008/08/11
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The Right Reaction to Bubbles: Easy Come, Easy Go
2008/08/08
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The Secret of Good Games
2008/08/08
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Hummel on Central Banking
2008/08/07
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Antitrust for Hong Kong?
2008/08/07
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Scott Page Makes Diversity Respectable
2008/08/06
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Gelman's Graphical Treat
2008/08/05
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Gelman's Great Book
2008/08/04
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Two Talks on Voter Irrationality
2008/08/04
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Are Central Banks the Most Efficient State Enterprise? Hummel's Answer and My Explanation
2008/08/04
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The Best of Solzhenitsyn
2008/08/03
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Should You Lose Sleep Over Global Catastrophic Risks?
2008/08/02
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The Demand for Ectogenesis
2008/08/01
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July 2008

Against Self-Subversion
2008/07/31
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The Nation vs. "The Economists"
2008/07/31
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Singaporean Sense
2008/07/30
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Letting Students Drop a Question: A Big Mistake
2008/07/29
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Goldberger Explains Why My Referee Was Wrong
2008/07/29
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The Misanthropic Magisterium
2008/07/28
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Maybe the Variance of Gas Prices Actually Has Increased
2008/07/27
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What to Learn from the XM-Sirius Merger: The "Friends of the Consumer" Are Your Enemy
2008/07/25
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Public Goods and Pedagogy
2008/07/25
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Posner Gets Behavioral
2008/07/24
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Will I Win My Oil Bet? The Wolfers Factor
2008/07/23
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Does Parental Divorce Cause Offspring Divorce?
2008/07/23
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Public Choice Outreach Seminar 2008
2008/07/22
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A "Why Not?" Moment
2008/07/22
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Why Read The Watchmen?
2008/07/22
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How Many Americans Could Pass the Citizenship Test?
2008/07/22
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The Social Costs of Getting Out the Vote
2008/07/21
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Do HSAs Work? Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
2008/07/20
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A Hobbesian Thought Experiment
2008/07/20
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Are Central Banks the Most Efficient State Enterprise?
2008/07/18
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Fools and Their Money
2008/07/18
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Complete Y: The Last Man Now Available
2008/07/17
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Department of Yay: The American Baby Boomlet
2008/07/17
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Sacerdote, Feyrer, Kids, and Gender Conflict
2008/07/15
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Disastrous Voting
2008/07/15
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Two Heuristics to Live By When You Don't Know What You're Doing
2008/07/14
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Humility Reconsidered
2008/07/14
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The Case for Libertaran Friendliness
2008/07/14
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Fairness Norms Breaking Down at the Airport - and Good Riddance!
2008/07/12
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When Has Independence Been Worth the Price?
2008/07/04
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Bryan Caplan Politely Declines to Join the Pigou Club
2008/07/03
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My IHS Lectures
2008/07/02
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Bad News for Me?
2008/07/02
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Cowen and Simon
2008/07/01
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