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July 2009

Idolatry in a Free Society
2009/07/03, Bryan Caplan
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Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies
2009/07/03, David Henderson
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Social Science and Public Policy
2009/07/03, Arnold Kling
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Further Reply to Matt: Who is "We"?
2009/07/02, David Henderson
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Jeffrey Friedman on the Financial Crisis
2009/07/02, Arnold Kling
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Great Questions, Matt
2009/07/02, Bryan Caplan
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Virtual Secession
2009/07/02, Arnold Kling
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A Closer Look at Adverse Selection and Mandatory Insurance
2009/07/01, Bryan Caplan
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Casnocha on Tyler's Next Book
2009/07/01, Arnold Kling
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June 2009

Why Traditionalists Should Prefer Libertines to Hypocrites
2009/06/30, Bryan Caplan
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Resources for Home-Schooled Economists
2009/06/29, Arnold Kling
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Krugman Misstates Arrow
2009/06/29, David Henderson
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Genetics and the Future of Religion
2009/06/29, Bryan Caplan
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Nobody Speaking
2009/06/29, Bryan Caplan
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What's Wrong With Realism? What's Right With It? Part 1
2009/06/29, Bryan Caplan
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The Forked Tongue Speaks
2009/06/29, Arnold Kling
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Nobody Tell Tyler Cowen
2009/06/28, Arnold Kling
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Central Planning of Cancer Research
2009/06/28, David Henderson
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The Political Economy of Geoengineering
2009/06/28, Bryan Caplan
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Kevin Murphy Interviewed
2009/06/27, Arnold Kling
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Why Bernanke Should Be Canned
2009/06/26, Bryan Caplan
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A Regulatory History Lesson
2009/06/26, Arnold Kling
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Against Growth Agnosticism
2009/06/26, Bryan Caplan
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Sumner, Wilson, Harding, Keynes
2009/06/26, Bryan Caplan
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Buy Global
2009/06/25, Arnold Kling
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Fixing the Health Care System
2009/06/25, Arnold Kling
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Posner and Kling on Financial Regulation
2009/06/25, Arnold Kling
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Not From the Onion
2009/06/25, David Henderson
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More Gems from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
2009/06/25, Bryan Caplan
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Fool's Gold
2009/06/25, Arnold Kling
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Regulation that Encouraged Herding
2009/06/25, Arnold Kling
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Retrospective Voting: Worse Than Chance
2009/06/24, Bryan Caplan
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Health Care Non-reform Watch
2009/06/24, Arnold Kling
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The Bill Gates Mystery
2009/06/24, Bryan Caplan
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Matt Ridley vs. My Most Wrong Belief
2009/06/24, Arnold Kling
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What Would You do Without a Governor?
2009/06/23, David Henderson
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Ezra Klein's Non Sequitur on Health Care
2009/06/23, David Henderson
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The Shield: Social Intelligence Gets Ugly
2009/06/23, Bryan Caplan
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Off on Vacation
2009/06/22, David Henderson
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I (More or Less) Agree With Krugman
2009/06/22, David Henderson
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Insurance as a Prisoners' Dilemma
2009/06/22, Bryan Caplan
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Financial Reform, 2
2009/06/21, Arnold Kling
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Bad Bets or Co-ordination Failure?
2009/06/20, Arnold Kling
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From Poverty to Prosperity Watch
2009/06/20, Arnold Kling
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Financial Reform
2009/06/19, Arnold Kling
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Fox News Roundup
2009/06/19, David Henderson
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The Not-So Fundamental Attribution Error
2009/06/19, Bryan Caplan
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Samuelson vs. Friedman
2009/06/18, David Henderson
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Robin Hanson on the Signalling Process
2009/06/18, Arnold Kling
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My Favorite Convert
2009/06/18, Bryan Caplan
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The Financial White Paper: A Fabulous Tale
2009/06/18, Arnold Kling
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Defending what Paul Krugman Wrote
2009/06/17, Arnold Kling
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How I Raised My Social Intelligence
2009/06/17, Bryan Caplan
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What's Wrong with the Financial Regulation White Paper
2009/06/17, Arnold Kling
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Things I'm Glad I Never Said
2009/06/16, Arnold Kling
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Dean Baker on the Uninsured
2009/06/16, David Henderson
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Sumner: An Embarassment of Riches
2009/06/16, Bryan Caplan
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Help with the Spinach
2009/06/16, Arnold Kling
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Audience Questions, 2
2009/06/16, Arnold Kling
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Simon Johnson on Geithner and Summers
2009/06/15, Arnold Kling
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One-Party State Watch
2009/06/15, Arnold Kling
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Audience Questions
2009/06/15, Arnold Kling
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Financial Regulation in Hindsight
2009/06/15, Arnold Kling
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In Defense of Low Correlations
2009/06/15, Bryan Caplan
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Employer-Provided Health Insurance
2009/06/15, Arnold Kling
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Personality and Econometrics
2009/06/15, Arnold Kling
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Myth of the Rational Voter, California Initiative Edition
2009/06/15, Bryan Caplan
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Guys in Suits
2009/06/14, David Henderson
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Does Personality Matter? Compared to What?
2009/06/14, Bryan Caplan
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One-Party State watch
2009/06/14, Arnold Kling
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Tyler Should Bet Against Obama-Care
2009/06/14, Bryan Caplan
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The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
2009/06/13, David Henderson
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Summers vs. Goolsbee
2009/06/12, David Henderson
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Sociology and Masonomics
2009/06/12, Arnold Kling
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The Myth of the Rational Voter, Minimum Wage Edition
2009/06/12, Bryan Caplan
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Russ's Challenge
2009/06/12, Bryan Caplan
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The Coming Minimum Wage Increase
2009/06/12, David Henderson
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McCraw's Marginal Mistake
2009/06/12, David Henderson
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In a Perfect World, I'd Call Myself a Sociologist
2009/06/11, Bryan Caplan
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Motives and Outcomes
2009/06/11, David Henderson
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From Poverty to Prosperity Watch
2009/06/10, Arnold Kling
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One-Party State Watch
2009/06/10, Arnold Kling
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The Aristocracy of Pull, 2
2009/06/10, David Henderson
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Inequality of Political Power
2009/06/10, Arnold Kling
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HMOs Died Because They Worked
2009/06/10, Bryan Caplan
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Behavioral Geneticists vs. Policy Implications: The Case of Child Care
2009/06/10, Bryan Caplan
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One-Party State Watch
2009/06/09, Arnold Kling
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Friedman's Law
2009/06/09, David Henderson
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How Markets Value the Welfare of the Poor: Follow-up to A Non-Socratic Dialogue
2009/06/09, Bryan Caplan
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More on the Fischer Black Model
2009/06/09, Arnold Kling
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The Purpose of the Public Health Insurance Plan
2009/06/09, Arnold Kling
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Justin Fox, Fischer Black, Tyler Cowen
2009/06/08, Arnold Kling
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Limits to Progress?
2009/06/08, David Henderson
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Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications
2009/06/08, Bryan Caplan
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Isn't That Just an Asian Effect?
2009/06/07, Bryan Caplan
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Forecasting
2009/06/07, Arnold Kling
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On Being Certain
2009/06/06, Arnold Kling
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Obama on How Markets Reduce Racial Discrimination
2009/06/06, David Henderson
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Pays Cuts: Are They For Real?
2009/06/06, Bryan Caplan
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Does Cooperation Lead to Socialism?
2009/06/05, Arnold Kling
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More on Matt Yglesias
2009/06/05, David Henderson
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An Unanswered Question on the Economics of Suicide
2009/06/05, Bryan Caplan
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So Many Narratives
2009/06/05, Arnold Kling
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Some Intellectual History for Matt Yglesias
2009/06/05, Arnold Kling
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Lectures on Macroeconomics, No. 16
2009/06/04, Arnold Kling
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Orszag and Hanson on McAllen's medical costs
2009/06/04, Arnold Kling
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Did Obama Restore Confidence?
2009/06/04, Bryan Caplan
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The Fiscal Policy Lag
2009/06/04, Arnold Kling
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Health Care Policy
2009/06/04, Arnold Kling
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Marcus Welby Was Greedy, Too
2009/06/04, Arnold Kling
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Backwards Induction in The Lookout
2009/06/04, Bryan Caplan
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One-Party State Watch
2009/06/03, Arnold Kling
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Pessimistic Bias Strikes Again?
2009/06/03, Bryan Caplan
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The Parental Wish List: What's Missing?
2009/06/03, Bryan Caplan
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The Bizarre World of Regulation
2009/06/02, David Henderson
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Free Lunch!
2009/06/02, Arnold Kling
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You, Too, Could be Doing This
2009/06/02, Arnold Kling
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Good Question
2009/06/02, Bryan Caplan
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Portfolios of the Poor: Highlights
2009/06/02, Bryan Caplan
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Gorman on Health Reform
2009/06/01, David Henderson
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Thumbs Up for Portfolios of the Poor
2009/06/01, Bryan Caplan
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May 2009

Can Risk Buckets Work?
2009/05/31, Arnold Kling
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Speaking of Health Care Reform
2009/05/31, Arnold Kling
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Health Reform's Savings Myth
2009/05/31, Arnold Kling
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Economics and Modernity
2009/05/30, Bryan Caplan
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Hanson on Morality
2009/05/29, Bryan Caplan
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Lectures on Macroeconomics, No. 15
2009/05/29, Arnold Kling
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The Road to Serfdom
2009/05/29, David Henderson
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Grasping the Nettle of Personality
2009/05/29, Arnold Kling
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Mankiw on Morality
2009/05/29, Bryan Caplan
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Since When...
2009/05/28, Arnold Kling
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Quiggin Takes My Euro-Bet
2009/05/28, Bryan Caplan
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Health Care Economics
2009/05/28, Arnold Kling
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The Anti-Stimulus
2009/05/28, Arnold Kling
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Afghanistan's Natural State
2009/05/28, Arnold Kling
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Technology and Health Care
2009/05/27, David Henderson
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The Nuances of EU Unemployment
2009/05/27, Bryan Caplan
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How do Political Beliefs Change?
2009/05/27, Arnold Kling
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Geoffrey Miller on Personality
2009/05/27, Arnold Kling
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The Economics of "Going Green"
2009/05/26, Arnold Kling
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High School: Don't Bother to Graduate [UPDATE--my error]
2009/05/26, Arnold Kling
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Unemployment, Labor Market Regulation, and Sour Grapes
2009/05/26, Bryan Caplan
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An Abstract that Whets My Appetite
2009/05/26, Bryan Caplan
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Public Financing of Political Campaigns
2009/05/26, Arnold Kling
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The Wonder of Economic Freedom, 2
2009/05/24, David Henderson
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Government Fundamentalists
2009/05/23, David Henderson
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What is the GDP Gap?
2009/05/23, Arnold Kling
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Two Disagreeable Questions for Ben Bernanke
2009/05/23, Arnold Kling
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Against the Human Development Index
2009/05/22, Bryan Caplan
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Fuel Economy and Relative Prices
2009/05/22, David Henderson
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I'll Bet On It: In the Long-Run, European Unemployment Will Be Higher
2009/05/21, Bryan Caplan
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Unemployment: Do Europhiles Have Anything to Celebrate?
2009/05/21, Bryan Caplan
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Is There Hope for My Most Wrong Belief?
2009/05/21, Arnold Kling
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Geoffrey Miller, Masonomist
2009/05/21, Arnold Kling
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The Irrepressible Boettke
2009/05/20, Bryan Caplan
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Stuck in the Natural State?
2009/05/20, Arnold Kling
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The Coming Auto Boom
2009/05/20, David Henderson
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Who Says Austrians Don't Do Good Empirical Work?
2009/05/20, Bryan Caplan
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Health Care: Mandates or Vouchers
2009/05/20, Arnold Kling
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The Other Demographic Suicide
2009/05/20, Bryan Caplan
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Memo to Krugman and DeLong: Start a Little Differently
2009/05/19, Arnold Kling
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Warren Buffett, Five
2009/05/19, Arnold Kling
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Exactly Wrong: The Real Unintended Consequences of New Credit Card Regs
2009/05/19, Bryan Caplan
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Bet Accepted
2009/05/19, Arnold Kling
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One-Party Democracy Is Not Coming: I'll Bet on It!
2009/05/19, Bryan Caplan
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Making Capital Disappear
2009/05/19, Arnold Kling
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The Economics of an Economics Ph.D.
2009/05/19, David Henderson
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Why I Fear a One-Party State
2009/05/18, Arnold Kling
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Must-Read Hanson
2009/05/18, Bryan Caplan
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The Case Against Libertarian Hispanophobia
2009/05/18, Bryan Caplan
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Krugman's Baby-Sitting Analogy
2009/05/18, David Henderson
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Today's Financial Reading
2009/05/18, Arnold Kling
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North, Wallis, and Weingast
2009/05/17, Arnold Kling
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The Emerging Stagnant Majority
2009/05/17, Arnold Kling
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Krugman Killer Quote
2009/05/16, David Henderson
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Should Make-Work Count?
2009/05/16, Bryan Caplan
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Meritocracy Without Borders
2009/05/16, Bryan Caplan
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Richard Epstein on Happiness, III
2009/05/15, David Henderson
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It's Not Who You Know, It's Who You Are
2009/05/15, Bryan Caplan
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Good Answer!
2009/05/15, Bryan Caplan
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Thoughts on Comparative Effectiveness Research
2009/05/15, Arnold Kling
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Funniest Macro Line of the Month
2009/05/14, Bryan Caplan
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Swine Flu and Hand-Shaking: A Question from the Final Exam
2009/05/14, Bryan Caplan
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I Repent; I Shall Revise My Labor Econ Notes
2009/05/14, Bryan Caplan
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Why Do Politicians Break Their Promises? Part 2
2009/05/14, Bryan Caplan
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Paging Simon Johnson and James Kwak
2009/05/14, Arnold Kling
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The Washington Post vs. the Obama Administration
2009/05/14, Arnold Kling
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Pro-Autistic Economics
2009/05/14, Arnold Kling
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Zywicki on Chrysler
2009/05/13, David Henderson
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Bernanke and "The Great Moderation" in Hindsight
2009/05/13, Bryan Caplan
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I Take (Some of) It Back
2009/05/13, David Henderson
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How Did For a New Liberty Influence MRV?
2009/05/13, Bryan Caplan
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Power over Pay
2009/05/13, Arnold Kling
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The Third Iron Law
2009/05/13, Arnold Kling
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EconLog Book Club Round-up: Ask Me Any Question About For a New Liberty
2009/05/12, Bryan Caplan
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Keith Hennessey is Bitter
2009/05/11, Arnold Kling
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Congenitally Entrepreneurial
2009/05/11, Bryan Caplan
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The Entitlement Outlook
2009/05/11, Arnold Kling
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Effect of Unions
2009/05/11, David Henderson
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This Changes Nothing
2009/05/11, Bryan Caplan
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Costs and Benefits of Beliefs
2009/05/11, Arnold Kling
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Woodward and Hall on Current Policy
2009/05/11, Arnold Kling
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The Walled Garden That Never Was
2009/05/10, Bryan Caplan
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The Inflation Illusion?
2009/05/09, Bryan Caplan
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Krugman on Pop Internationalism
2009/05/09, David Henderson
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Sacerdote's Dog That Didn't Bark
2009/05/09, Bryan Caplan
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John Stossel Tonight
2009/05/08, David Henderson
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The Present and the Future
2009/05/08, Bryan Caplan
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Canadian Banks and their Regulators
2009/05/08, Arnold Kling
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Krugman's Hooverite View on Wages
2009/05/07, David Henderson
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Gerald Scully, RIP
2009/05/07, David Henderson
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Wage Cuts: Do Well While Doing Good
2009/05/07, Bryan Caplan
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Test-Marketing
2009/05/07, Arnold Kling
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Why Wage Cuts Are Good For Aggregate Demand
2009/05/07, Bryan Caplan
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Let 'em Fail
2009/05/06, Arnold Kling
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Patri Friedman Reads Atlas Shrugged
2009/05/06, Bryan Caplan
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Sell the Streets?
2009/05/06, David Henderson
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The Dictator's Handbook: Read It
2009/05/06, Bryan Caplan
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Regulatory Dilemmas
2009/05/05, Arnold Kling
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 15
2009/05/05, Bryan Caplan
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Revenue Sharing
2009/05/05, Arnold Kling
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George Selgin on Free Banking
2009/05/05, Arnold Kling
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The Problem with Democracy
2009/05/04, Arnold Kling
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Robin's Wishful Thinking
2009/05/04, Bryan Caplan
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Why Do Politicians Break Their Promises? Part 1
2009/05/04, Bryan Caplan
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Scott Sumner's Parenthetical Remark
2009/05/04, Arnold Kling
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Reformers Against Democracy
2009/05/04, Bryan Caplan
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Ed Leamer
2009/05/04, Arnold Kling
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True or False?
2009/05/04, David Henderson
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More Thoughts on Masonomics
2009/05/04, Arnold Kling
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Gillian Tett on the Financial Crisis
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The Three S's of Finance
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Obama's Debt Tsunami
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Finance as a Network
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The Case for Libertarian Evangelism
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mulp [2009/07/04 05:24 PM, Employer-Provided Health Insurance]:
The taxing of healthcare benefits will probably be the final death blow to ...

The Cupboard Is Bare [2009/07/04 05:19 PM, Why Traditionalists Should Prefer Libertines to Hypocrites]:
Hi Collin K, Don't know if you're still around to read this, but thank you...

Monte [2009/07/04 04:49 PM, Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies]:
Butch Cassidy: You know, it could be worse. You get a lot more for your mon...

The Cupboard Is Bare [2009/07/04 04:19 PM, Idolatry in a Free Society]:
Hi RL, Perhaps at that late (early) hour, I didn't express myself well eno...

shayne [2009/07/04 12:46 PM, Social Science and Public Policy]:
Perhaps Bryan will author a book titled, "The Myth of the Rational Economis...

shayne [2009/07/04 12:32 PM, Jeffrey Friedman on the Financial Crisis]:
To Arnold - thank you so much for this reference (I've purchased the full i...

RL [2009/07/04 11:18 AM, Idolatry in a Free Society]:
To The Cupboard Is Bare: Don't you think the 24 hour cable news cycle also...

The Cupboard Is Bare [2009/07/04 04:26 AM, Idolatry in a Free Society]:
There was a time when coverage of celebrities was confined to gossip column...

Nick_L [2009/07/04 02:06 AM, Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies]:
Colonel Smithers: Gentlemen, Mr. Goldfiinger has gold bullion on deposit in...

Jeff [2009/07/04 01:38 AM, Krugman Misstates Arrow]:
I haven't read Arrow as yet, and am relatively speaking an amateur as far a...

kievite [2009/07/04 01:16 AM, Jeffrey Friedman on the Financial Crisis]:
The real problem is quite different the ignorance or cognitive weakness: it...

Troy Camplin [2009/07/04 01:05 AM, Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies]:
I love Rear Window, but Jeff is a cynic. I cannot tell you how many poems I...

Rosa [2009/07/04 01:04 AM, Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies]:
This speech from an old movie called Home Town Story (more remembered for M...

Lee Kelly [2009/07/04 12:54 AM, Social Science and Public Policy]:
Sometimes, to retain some power you need to give some of it up--just ask th...

Peter McCluskey [2009/07/04 12:30 AM, Great Questions, Matt]:
If you read Ezra's post, there are actually two distinct complaints about f...

Dave [2009/07/03 10:42 PM, Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies]:
I don't even have to name these 2 movies: First movie "Fine but I would l...

Phil [2009/07/03 09:08 PM, Idolatry in a Free Society]:
What scares me -- and is this the point Bryan was trying to make? -- is tha...

fundamentalist [2009/07/03 08:45 PM, Social Science and Public Policy]:
Right on, Kling! Give 'em hell! To paraphrase Menchen, politics is the art...

Les [2009/07/03 08:15 PM, Idolatry in a Free Society]:
I feel grateful for the music of Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven, although I n...

Sam Wilson [2009/07/03 08:13 PM, Idolatry in a Free Society]:
I'm not entirely convinced that hysteria has a downward-sloping demand curv...

Brent Buckner [2009/07/03 07:46 PM, Idolatry in a Free Society]:
c.f. "market for partisanship" Standard arguments regarding venting versus...

michael pettengill [2009/07/03 07:36 PM, Great Questions, Matt]:
Of course, if the problem is that you want to buy insurance against the pos...

Mike [2009/07/03 04:01 PM, Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies]:
Glengarry Glen Ross: We're adding a little something to this month's sales...

Mike [2009/07/03 03:59 PM, Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies]:
Office Space Peter Gibbons: Our high school guidance counselor used to a...

David R. Henderson [2009/07/03 03:31 PM, Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies]:
I'm glad two people mentioned Other People's Money. The play is even bette...

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Employer-Provided Health Insurance [Comments (5) ]:
    Mr. Econotarian: We seem to be very concerned about the per capita spending on health care i...
    Dr. T: To AK: The major reason for skyrocketing health care costs was the separati...
    mulp: The taxing of healthcare benefits will probably be the final death blow to ...

Why Traditionalists Should Prefer Libertines to Hypocrites [Comments (34) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    rsj: [Comment removed for rudeness and policy violations. Email the webmaster@e...
    Tracy W: George: I happen to believe their day job is Getting Reelected; I'm guessin...
    The Cupboard Is Bare: Hi Collin K, Don't know if you're still around to read this, but thank you...

Favorite Economics Dialogues in Movies [Comments (27) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Troy Camplin: I love Rear Window, but Jeff is a cynic. I cannot tell you how many poems I...
    Nick_L: Colonel Smithers: Gentlemen, Mr. Goldfiinger has gold bullion on deposit in...
    Monte: Butch Cassidy: You know, it could be worse. You get a lot more for your mon...

Idolatry in a Free Society [Comments (7) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    The Cupboard Is Bare: There was a time when coverage of celebrities was confined to gossip column...
    RL: To The Cupboard Is Bare: Don't you think the 24 hour cable news cycle also...
    The Cupboard Is Bare: Hi RL, Perhaps at that late (early) hour, I didn't express myself well eno...

Social Science and Public Policy [Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    fundamentalist: Right on, Kling! Give 'em hell! To paraphrase Menchen, politics is the art...
    Lee Kelly: Sometimes, to retain some power you need to give some of it up--just ask th...
    shayne: Perhaps Bryan will author a book titled, "The Myth of the Rational Economis...

Jeffrey Friedman on the Financial Crisis [Comments (10) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    fundamentalist: I didn't get from Friedman's intro that he rides a hobby horse about cognit...
    kievite: The real problem is quite different the ignorance or cognitive weakness: it...
    shayne: To Arnold - thank you so much for this reference (I've purchased the full i...

Krugman Misstates Arrow [Comments (12) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    gnat: kingstu Here is a good summary http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/histor...
    GabbyD: @atturi but the competitive model is a model where the market maximizes to...
    Jeff: I haven't read Arrow as yet, and am relatively speaking an amateur as far a...

Great Questions, Matt [Comments (28) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Daniel Lurker: I agree with you generally, but immigrants self-select. It seems likely tha...
    michael pettengill: Of course, if the problem is that you want to buy insurance against the pos...
    Peter McCluskey: If you read Ezra's post, there are actually two distinct complaints about f...

Further Reply to Matt: Who is "We"? [Comments (6) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Kurbla: In my opinion, state is important, not government. "We" are not government,...
    Robb Lutton: What do you mean Bryan is "more radical" than you? I thought Libertarianism...
    mark: You are absolutely right. Misuse of the word "we" is one of the ways in whi...

A Closer Look at Adverse Selection and Mandatory Insurance [Comments (25) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    ionides: Thank you Gary. ...
    Jimbino: The existence of insurance depends on ignorance, irrationality and force. ...
    Alfredo deLorenzo: The talk of mandatory insurance, auto - health compared leads me to think w...

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