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May 2008
Biggs on Bracket Creep
2008/05/09, Arnold Kling
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Tradition of Liberty: Advanced Studies Seminar
2008/05/08, Bryan Caplan
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The Cynical Case for the Gas Tax Holiday: From EconLog to the NYT
2008/05/07, Bryan Caplan
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Name Your Price: When Will Gas Price Controls Return?
2008/05/07, Bryan Caplan
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The Gasoline Market
2008/05/07, Arnold Kling
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What I'm Going to Do on My Summer Vacation
2008/05/07, Bryan Caplan
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Why People Buy Insurance
2008/05/06, Arnold Kling
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The Right to Vote and the Right to Leave
2008/05/06, Arnold Kling
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The $.30 Question
2008/05/06, Bryan Caplan
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Why Hillary's Harmless
2008/05/06, Bryan Caplan
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A Basic Divide
2008/05/05, Arnold Kling
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The Time Capsule from 1983
2008/05/05, Bryan Caplan
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Gender in EJW
2008/05/05, Bryan Caplan
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Over the Sea: Patri's Dream
2008/05/05, Bryan Caplan
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I'll Shill for Hillary
2008/05/04, Bryan Caplan
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A Woman of the People
2008/05/04, Arnold Kling
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If Merle Kling Could Have Met Brian Doherty
2008/05/03, Arnold Kling
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India, 1977: A Libertarian Populist Moment
2008/05/03, Bryan Caplan
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Who Said It?
2008/05/03, Bryan Caplan
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April 2008
A High-Wage Equilibrium
2008/04/30, Arnold Kling
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Overqualified: What's the Deal?
2008/04/30, Bryan Caplan
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Rat-ta-ta-ta-tat
2008/04/30, Bryan Caplan
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A Meditation on Minarchy
2008/04/30, Arnold Kling
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How to Be Mr. Popular When You're Old
2008/04/29, Bryan Caplan
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Kuran on Simon: A Fitting Epitaph
2008/04/29, Bryan Caplan
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Environmental Disasters
2008/04/29, Arnold Kling
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Important Data on Access to College
2008/04/29, Arnold Kling
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The CNN Model of Violent Conflict
2008/04/28, Bryan Caplan
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Self-Parody: Pessimistic Bias in the Media
2008/04/28, Bryan Caplan
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Jim Hamilton Uses Murray Rothbard's Favorite Epithet
2008/04/27, Bryan Caplan
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Euro Bet II x3: The Bet's On
2008/04/26, Bryan Caplan
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Insiders, Outsiders, and Voting Behavior
2008/04/26, Arnold Kling
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Euro Bet II: Win Mark Steyn's Money
2008/04/26, Bryan Caplan
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Western Culture: Crisis of Confidence?
2008/04/26, Bryan Caplan
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Flight of the Red Balloon: Don't Believe the Hype
2008/04/25, Bryan Caplan
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Modern Recessions
2008/04/25, Arnold Kling
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Political Economy Lessons for the World Bank
2008/04/25, Arnold Kling
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Bet Bleg
2008/04/25, Bryan Caplan
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Is Ehrlich the Least Hansonian Think Ever?
2008/04/25, Bryan Caplan
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The Simon-Ehrlich Rematch: Was There Any Wheat Amongst the Chaff?
2008/04/25, Bryan Caplan
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Income Distribution Reality
2008/04/25, Arnold Kling
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Fiscal Reality
2008/04/25, Arnold Kling
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Riding Tigers by James Schneider: The Best 21st Century Novel You Haven't Read
2008/04/24, Bryan Caplan
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Correction: Men, Women, Kids, and Happiness
2008/04/24, Bryan Caplan
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Loose Mortgage Credit
2008/04/24, Arnold Kling
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Credit Spreads and the Fed
2008/04/24, Arnold Kling
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A Basic Economic Lesson
2008/04/23, Arnold Kling
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Peasants vs. Nomads
2008/04/22, Arnold Kling
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Stepping on Will's Toes
2008/04/22, Bryan Caplan
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Wilkinson and Shirky
2008/04/22, Arnold Kling
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Do I Step on Libertarian Toes?
2008/04/22, Bryan Caplan
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Assortative Living
2008/04/22, Arnold Kling
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I Still Hate Monetary Theory
2008/04/21, Arnold Kling
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Diminishing Returns and Life
2008/04/21, Arnold Kling
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Two New Fun Lectures
2008/04/21, Bryan Caplan
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I Just Got $100,000 Worth of Consumer Surplus!
2008/04/21, Bryan Caplan
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Creating a Life: Why Bad Publicity Wasn't Good Publicity
2008/04/20, Bryan Caplan
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A Cerebral Defense of Gun Rights
2008/04/19, Bryan Caplan
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Are Natalist Tax Incentives a Free Lunch?
2008/04/19, Bryan Caplan
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The Quick Fix: For the Love of God, Give Every Haitian a Green Card
2008/04/19, Bryan Caplan
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True Insults and False Compliments
2008/04/18, Bryan Caplan
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Economic Policy for Humans? What Thaler and Sunstein Miss
2008/04/18, Bryan Caplan
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Best Advice I've Heard in Months
2008/04/17, Bryan Caplan
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Why I am an Austro-Keynesian
2008/04/17, Arnold Kling
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Behavioral Economics Ready for (Sub) Prime Time?
2008/04/17, Arnold Kling
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Childlessness and Regret
2008/04/16, Bryan Caplan
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Book Club Worthy
2008/04/16, Arnold Kling
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Bill Cosby: Underrated
2008/04/15, Bryan Caplan
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Reducing Ignorance, Facilitating Irrationality?
2008/04/15, Bryan Caplan
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The Rationality of Iran
2008/04/15, Bryan Caplan
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The Muddle that is Macro
2008/04/15, Arnold Kling
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Married with 19 Kids = Single & Childless
2008/04/14, Bryan Caplan
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Roots of West Virginia's Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
2008/04/14, Bryan Caplan
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What I'm Reading (Slowly)
2008/04/14, Arnold Kling
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The High Cost of Trendy Living: A Slight Variation on the Obvious Explanation
2008/04/13, Bryan Caplan
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Econ Prof Lead Character in New Movie
2008/04/10, Bryan Caplan
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What Would It Take to Make You Take a Spammer Seriously?
2008/04/10, Bryan Caplan
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Your Foot in the Door and Your Stuff in the Store
2008/04/10, Bryan Caplan
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Merle Kling
2008/04/10, Arnold Kling
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Will Goolsbee Last?
2008/04/08, Bryan Caplan
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Blogs and Books
2008/04/08, Bryan Caplan
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My Views on Optimal Family Size: Some Clarifications
2008/04/07, Bryan Caplan
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Daniel Klein on Libertarianism
2008/04/07, Arnold Kling
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American Excess
2008/04/07, Arnold Kling
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Be Careful What You Wish For
2008/04/07, Arnold Kling
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American Mugabe, Revisted
2008/04/06, Bryan Caplan
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Great Question: The Scarcity of Social Democratic Triumphalism
2008/04/06, Bryan Caplan
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Don't Stop, But Look Before You Leap
2008/04/06, Bryan Caplan
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Please Stop
2008/04/06, Arnold Kling
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The Debaters: A Childishly Long Reply to Will
2008/04/05, Bryan Caplan
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Perceived Duty to Have Children, by Gender
2008/04/04, Bryan Caplan
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Make them take Basis Risk
2008/04/04, Arnold Kling
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The Willpower Muscle
2008/04/04, Arnold Kling
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The Virtues of Small Enterprise
2008/04/03, Arnold Kling
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Is Family Size a Gendered Issue?
2008/04/03, Bryan Caplan
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Why I Don't Call Myself a "Moderate Austrian"
2008/04/03, Bryan Caplan
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Finally, a Pure Bailout
2008/04/03, Arnold Kling
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Fundamentalists: When They're Right, When They're Wrong
2008/04/02, Bryan Caplan
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Why Hitler Chose the Jews
2008/04/02, Bryan Caplan
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What is a Market Economy?
2008/04/02, Arnold Kling
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Regulatory Re-Org
2008/04/01, Arnold Kling
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Higgs on Göring on War
2008/04/01, Bryan Caplan
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Economics Appears Late
2008/04/01, Arnold Kling
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March 2008
You're Never Too Old to Become a Kidult
2008/03/31, Bryan Caplan
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Jamie-Lynn Spears' Pregnancy: What's the Problem?
2008/03/31, Bryan Caplan
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Modernity and the Gender Gap: It's Counter-Intutive
2008/03/30, Bryan Caplan
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The Sub-Utopianism of the Market
2008/03/30, Bryan Caplan
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Jefferson Against Newspapers
2008/03/28, Bryan Caplan
Comments (14) | TrackBacks (3)
Education and Beliefs About Campaign Finance: An Exception to the Rule
2008/03/28, Bryan Caplan
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You Do the Math: Goolsbee on Retirement Investing
2008/03/27, Bryan Caplan
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Meltzer on Financial Regulation
2008/03/27, Arnold Kling
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Politicians: How Outraged Should You Be?
2008/03/27, Bryan Caplan
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Public Opinion as a Political Speed Limit
2008/03/27, Bryan Caplan
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The Plunder Economy
2008/03/26, Arnold Kling
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Tyler on Signaling: Even the New and Improved Version Doesn't Cut It
2008/03/26, Bryan Caplan
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Education, Assortative Mating, and Inequality
2008/03/26, Arnold Kling
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Junk Macroeconomic Science
2008/03/26, Arnold Kling
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ROTFL
2008/03/25, Bryan Caplan
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Financial Commentary
2008/03/25, Arnold Kling
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Posner on What Teachers Want
2008/03/25, Bryan Caplan
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Publishing the Unpublishable Paper: Something to Care About
2008/03/25, Bryan Caplan
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The "Too Simple to Write a Book About It" Diet
2008/03/25, Bryan Caplan
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A Result I Was Happy to Hear
2008/03/24, Bryan Caplan
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Snippets of Subversive Folk Songs
2008/03/24, Arnold Kling
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Emerson on Tipping Charity
2008/03/24, Bryan Caplan
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Sherry Glied vs. Jacob Hacker
2008/03/24, Arnold Kling
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The Paperback Arrives
2008/03/24, Arnold Kling
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Peter Orszag on Health Care Costs
2008/03/23, Arnold Kling
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On the "to be read" list
2008/03/23, Arnold Kling
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The Root Causes of Divorce: The Usual Suspects
2008/03/22, Bryan Caplan
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Folk Songs
2008/03/20, Arnold Kling
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Is "Contagion" the Result of Statistical Discrimination?
2008/03/19, Bryan Caplan
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The Coase Theorem and Divorce; Or, the Familial Economy of Hate
2008/03/18, Bryan Caplan
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Defending Market-Value Accounting
2008/03/18, Arnold Kling
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The Medium and The Message
2008/03/18, Arnold Kling
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Financial Turmoil
2008/03/18, Arnold Kling
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Costs and Benefits of the Patent System
2008/03/17, Arnold Kling
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The Power of Mistaken Identity
2008/03/17, Bryan Caplan
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A Historical Anecdote
2008/03/17, Arnold Kling
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Monetary Theory and Policy
2008/03/17, Arnold Kling
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Another Parable
2008/03/16, Arnold Kling
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Not Fannie Mae!
2008/03/15, Arnold Kling
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Speculator of Last Resort?
2008/03/14, Arnold Kling
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The Love of Hierarchies
2008/03/14, Arnold Kling
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Once Upon a Time
2008/03/14, Arnold Kling
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An Army of Spitzers
2008/03/14, Arnold Kling
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How I Would Advertise Nip/Tuck in the AER
2008/03/14, Bryan Caplan
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Birth Order and Safety
2008/03/12, Bryan Caplan
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The Outlier Who Would Be President
2008/03/12, Bryan Caplan
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Why Colleges Need More Money
2008/03/12, Arnold Kling
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Sentences that Should Embarrass Any Grad Student
2008/03/12, Bryan Caplan
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Wisdom of Crowds Blog Experiment
2008/03/12, Bryan Caplan
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My Review of Gregory Clark
2008/03/11, Arnold Kling
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What Rothbard Missed: Error or Demagoguery?
2008/03/10, Bryan Caplan
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What the Mainstream Can Learn from Rothbard's Monetary Econ - and What Rothbard Should Have Learned from the Mainstream
2008/03/10, Bryan Caplan
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Selection and Politicians
2008/03/10, Arnold Kling
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Sacrificing an Economic Adviser
2008/03/10, Arnold Kling
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What is Revolutionary Science?
2008/03/10, Arnold Kling
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Where are the Hedge Funds?
2008/03/10, Arnold Kling
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International Inequality
2008/03/10, Arnold Kling
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Free Lunch at SXSW?
2008/03/09, Bryan Caplan
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George McGovern, Libertarian
2008/03/07, Arnold Kling
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Feldstein's Lender Bailout Proposal
2008/03/07, Arnold Kling
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Civil Disobedience Alert
2008/03/06, Arnold Kling
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Why Does Nurture Affect Religion?
2008/03/06, Bryan Caplan
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Energy Scenarios
2008/03/06, Arnold Kling
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Gary Gygax, RIP
2008/03/05, Bryan Caplan
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Jonah Goldberg's Alternative Title
2008/03/05, Arnold Kling
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Podcasting is so 2005
2008/03/05, Arnold Kling
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What Looks Good at This Year's Public Choice Meetings
2008/03/04, Bryan Caplan
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Who Will Be Less Bad for Trade?
2008/03/04, Bryan Caplan
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Hamilton: Trade-offs, Not Tightropes
2008/03/04, Bryan Caplan
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The Civic Duty to Know Your Limits
2008/03/04, Bryan Caplan
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Progressives, Eugenics, and Airbrushing
2008/03/04, Arnold Kling
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Economics and Sociology
2008/03/04, Arnold Kling
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Security Symbolism
2008/03/04, Arnold Kling
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Who Owns Oil
2008/03/04, Arnold Kling
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Life Under Socialism
2008/03/03, Arnold Kling
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Kurzweil on Solar Power
2008/03/03, Arnold Kling
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There's a Name for What I Am
2008/03/03, Bryan Caplan
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How People in the Biz Explain the Subprime Crisis to Their Families
2008/03/01, Bryan Caplan
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Who Says Economics Causes Asperger's?
2008/03/01, Bryan Caplan
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Does the Public Want Smaller Government After All? A Reply to Horpedahl
2008/03/01, Bryan Caplan
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Tim: If only the top 50%-ish paid for income tax (yes, I'm conflating me... [MORE...]

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I don't know if you guys use the same phrase but we Brits call that "fiscal... [MORE...]

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Gas tax holiday? A Summer War Holiday makes more sense to me.... [MORE...]

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A short holiday on gas problems does nothing for our long term challenges. ... [MORE...]

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Ideally, leaving would not require packing up and moving. We would have ... [MORE...]

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The Case Against Education I think that it would better worded:... [MORE...]

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Biggs on Bracket Creep [Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Matt: I would look for reversibility. Does inflation adjust to maximize market...
    Tim Worstall: I don't know if you guys use the same phrase but we Brits call that "fiscal...
    Brandon: Tim: If only the top 50%-ish paid for income tax (yes, I'm conflating me...

Tradition of Liberty: Advanced Studies Seminar [Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Floccina: The Case Against Education I think that it would better worded:...
    Brian Schwartz: Sounds like a great seminar. And congrats on your article in the NY Times!...
    Bill Stepp: The case against education? Education is simply the process of learning, w...

The Cynical Case for the Gas Tax Holiday: From EconLog to the NYT [Comments (23) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Snark: Or...how about <a href="http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/01/one_...
    John: A short holiday on gas problems does nothing for our long term challenges. ...
    degustibus: Gas tax holiday? A Summer War Holiday makes more sense to me....

The Right to Vote and the Right to Leave [Comments (14) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Troy Camplin, Ph.D.: That was precisely the problem with Athenian ostracism: it was tied up in f...
    Ben Kalafut: What we ought to strive to avoid is an increase in the respectability of "i...
    Helder: Ideally, leaving would not require packing up and moving. We would have ...

Why Hillary's Harmless [Comments (22) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    John Thacker: I'm also pretty darn certain that both Democratic candidates would sign (an...
    Barkley Rosser: Horatio, Really? You mean there is no way to be more like other countri...
    John Thacker: Really? You mean there is no way to be more like other countries, virtu...

The Gasoline Market [Comments (9) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Paul McKellar: It seems a dead end. It basically goes back to the basic economic concept o...
    Arnold Kling: Jesper, I do think that raising taxes on gasoline would tend to take some ...
    william: Opponents of drilling for our own oil always use the argument: That oil is ...

Name Your Price: When Will Gas Price Controls Return? [Comments (28) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    liberty: Jesper, A bit of each perhaps (and in Europe too). We used to have a re...
    Dan Weber: By the time we get to $5 a gallon (wholesale), it will make economic sense ...
    Ethnic Austrian: @liberty: Isn't it mostly rhetoric anyway? Unless you are comparing the ...

What I'm Going to Do on My Summer Vacation [Comments (7) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Finja: actually, i made up my mind about it... if you happen to come to freiburg, ...
    Marc A Cohen: I live and work in Worcester, MA - about 40 miles West of Boston. I don't ...
    Dain: I would LOVE to hear about your experiences at the Critical Review Conferen...

The $.30 Question [Comments (11) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    andy: My guess is this is the result of the recent book-tax holiday....
    David: Terms of Endearment is going for $5.49. Maybe they figured that mak...
    Boonton: Perhaps it is tied to the competition & the used books auctions. Perhaps a...

Why People Buy Insurance [Comments (7) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    Blakeney: The customer is the insurance company, not the patient.</blockq...
    Dr. T: This is strange: I agree with all the preceding comments! A slight corre...
    Bill Stepp: You are right that many people often have difficulty dealing with uncertain...

A Basic Divide [Comments (18) | TrackBacks (0)]:
    John Fast: Snark, I'm not sure if your comment was a reply to mine. In case it wasn't...
    Chuck: Because markets are efficient, the less government interferes with markets,...
    Jason: There will always be people in need. I am not sure if the government is the...

I'll Shill for Hillary [Comments (12) ]:
    John B. Chilton: On the source of ideas, Washington Times: John McCain, the presumptive R...
    Ken Houghton: Tangentially, if you're expecting the price of oil to continue to rise, wha...
    Jesper Antonsson: I don't really understand why some of you guys seem to doubt that tax cuts ...


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