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May 2013

How to Spend a Billion Dollars: Best Answers
2013/05/20, Bryan Caplan
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Population Externality Bleg
2013/05/19, Bryan Caplan
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Values Every Scholar Should Adopt
2013/05/18, Art Carden
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Congestion Externality Bleg
2013/05/18, David Henderson
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Age and Common Sense
2013/05/18, Bryan Caplan
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Look Out the Window, or, Stop and Smell the Bacon
2013/05/17, Art Carden
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Another Inflation Bet
2013/05/17, Bryan Caplan
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Linda Gorman on How ObamaCare Treats Middle Class
2013/05/17, David Henderson
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Recent Reading and Coming Attractions: Stats, Stats, and More Stats!
2013/05/16, Art Carden
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How to Spend A Billion Dollars
2013/05/16, Bryan Caplan
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Contrarian Virtue
2013/05/16, Bryan Caplan
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Kenneth Elzinga on Teaching Economics
2013/05/16, David Henderson
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"Social Welfare Groups" Defined in the Process of Their Emergence
2013/05/15, Art Carden
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You Will Know Them By Their Unpopular Views
2013/05/15, Bryan Caplan
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Recent Reading
2013/05/15, Art Carden
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Kling on Clans, North on States
2013/05/14, Art Carden
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"Most Economists?" Really?
2013/05/14, David Henderson
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Ben Haller on My Global Warming Econometrics Bleg
2013/05/13, Bryan Caplan
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Global Warming Econometrics Bleg
2013/05/12, Bryan Caplan
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Gray Lady Down: Justin Gillis's Misleading News Story
2013/05/12, David Henderson
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Marty Nemko: Don't Go to College
2013/05/11, David Henderson
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In a Just World...
2013/05/10, Bryan Caplan
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Sanctions and Boycotts in an Interconnected World
2013/05/10, David Henderson
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Facebook: So Long. Sort of.
2013/05/10, Art Carden
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Rector, Poverty, and Immigration
2013/05/09, Bryan Caplan
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Hayek on Medical Marijuana
2013/05/09, David Henderson
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Happy Hayek Day: Is it Investment? Is it Consumption?
2013/05/08, Art Carden
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Owen, Sawhill, and "the" Return to Education
2013/05/08, Bryan Caplan
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Dwight Lee on Ebenezer Scrooge's Morality
2013/05/07, David Henderson
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Keynesian Bets: What's Out There
2013/05/07, Bryan Caplan
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Adam Smith on the Public Choice of Foreign Intervention
2013/05/06, David Henderson
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Keynesian Bets Bleg
2013/05/06, Bryan Caplan
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The Pyramid of Macroeconomic Insight and Virtue
2013/05/06, Bryan Caplan
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John Thacker on Vaccinations and the Sequester
2013/05/05, David Henderson
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Eat Your Pizza, or, The Beginnings of a Dialogue with My Two-Year Old and Four-Year-Old About Macroeconomic Stability
2013/05/04, Art Carden
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Chef Rudy's Virtues Project
2013/05/03, David Henderson
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My take on Reinhart and Rogoff
2013/05/02, David Henderson
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A Natalist Provision
2013/05/02, Bryan Caplan
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Medicare Kills a Program
2013/05/01, David Henderson
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May Day, Bourgeois Virtues, and Pictures of the Socialistic Future
2013/05/01, Art Carden
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I Was a Teenage Misanthrope
2013/05/01, Bryan Caplan
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Smuggling in Values
2013/05/01, David Henderson
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April 2013

The Hulk's Handshakes and Optimal Monetary Policy
2013/04/30, Garett Jones
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A Charitable Parable
2013/04/30, Bryan Caplan
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The Evasion of Equity
2013/04/30, Bryan Caplan
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A Supererogatory Provision
2013/04/29, Bryan Caplan
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Budget Cuts Seem to Work
2013/04/28, David Henderson
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Why Trailers Instead of Manufactured Homes?
2013/04/27, David Henderson
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Open Borders in The Atlantic
2013/04/27, Bryan Caplan
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Tocqueville's Trailers
2013/04/26, David Henderson
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In the Land of Interest on Reserves the Interest Rate is an Instrument
2013/04/26, Garett Jones
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Public vs. Private Sector Compensation: A Case of Curious Controversy
2013/04/26, Bryan Caplan
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Contra Garett Jones: Interest Rates are NOT an Instrument
2013/04/25, David Henderson
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The Federal Pay Scale: Inflated Yet Compressed
2013/04/25, Bryan Caplan
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Practical Monetary Policy and My Foolproof Plan to Win an Olympic Gold Medal
2013/04/24, Garett Jones
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Will ObamaCare Reduce the Number of Uninsured People?
2013/04/24, David Henderson
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Talk this Morning: "More Immigrants, Please"
2013/04/24, Art Carden
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The Grave Evil of Unemployment
2013/04/23, Bryan Caplan
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Bet on Euro: I Won
2013/04/23, David Henderson
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James Buchanan on Writing
2013/04/22, David Henderson
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Fictional Hillary Clinton and the Real Cost of Political Egalitarianism
2013/04/22, Garett Jones
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Can Expectations Save Communism?
2013/04/22, Bryan Caplan
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Bleg: Median Voter Theorem
2013/04/21, David Henderson
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Boston: Centralization vs. Friedrich Hayek and Jane Jacobs
2013/04/21, David Henderson
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Sundry Observations on Statistical Discrimination and Terrorism
2013/04/20, Art Carden
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Friday Night Video: Shikha Dalmia on Unskilled Immigrants
2013/04/19, David Henderson
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Better Living Through Statistics: Muslim Terrorists Edition
2013/04/19, Art Carden
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Speech: The Perverse Economics of Sanctions
2013/04/18, David Henderson
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ZMP, Morale, and Statistical Discrimination
2013/04/18, Bryan Caplan
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Sticky Price Keynesianism & Monetarism are ZMP Theories
2013/04/17, Garett Jones
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On Bubbles and the Benefit of the Doubt: An Easy Increase in Serenity
2013/04/17, Art Carden
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What You Say When You Don't Call an Applicant
2013/04/17, Bryan Caplan
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What You Say When You Throw an Application Away
2013/04/16, Bryan Caplan
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Physics Applied to Economics
2013/04/15, David Henderson
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Starve the Beast v. The Ant and The Grasshopper: A Coda
2013/04/15, Garett Jones
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Immigration and Bubbles
2013/04/15, Bryan Caplan
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Proposition 65: When Government Cries Wolf
2013/04/14, David Henderson
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Margaret Thatcher's Legacy
2013/04/12, David Henderson
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How I Found Well-Being in a Bubble World
2013/04/11, David Henderson
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Make Your Own Bubble in 10 Easy Steps
2013/04/11, Bryan Caplan
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Proposition 65 and the Red Licorice Police
2013/04/10, David Henderson
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AI and GE: Answers
2013/04/10, Bryan Caplan
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On Homeschoolery: A Bet, Revised
2013/04/09, Art Carden
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The Effect of Intelligence on Job Performance is Intuitive
2013/04/09, Bryan Caplan
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Art's Bet
2013/04/09, Bryan Caplan
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Is Econ a Mickey Mouse Major?
2013/04/08, Bryan Caplan
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Redistributing from Workers to Capitalists: Would Rational Workers Vote For It?
2013/04/08, Garett Jones
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"Portugual Mulls Paying Workers in T-Bills"
2013/04/08, Garett Jones
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Letters to Kim Jong-Un
2013/04/07, Bryan Caplan
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On The Effects of Homeschooling: A Bet
2013/04/07, Art Carden
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Jared Bernstein Gets Efficiency Wrong
2013/04/06, David Henderson
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Krugman Gets Hoover Wrong
2013/04/05, David Henderson
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IQ and Hiring: Does the Law Matter?
2013/04/05, Bryan Caplan
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Worstall on Cyprus and Russians
2013/04/04, David Henderson
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Acemoglu and Robinson on the Wealth of Nations
2013/04/04, David Henderson
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International IQ Testing Bleg
2013/04/04, Bryan Caplan
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AI and GE
2013/04/04, Bryan Caplan
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Legality of Credentialism Bleg
2013/04/03, Bryan Caplan
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Blood and Expectations: The Case of the American Liquor Industry
2013/04/03, Bryan Caplan
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Henderson on Mulligan's Redistribution Recession
2013/04/02, David Henderson
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Crazy Equilibria: From Democracy to Anarcho-Capitalism
2013/04/02, Bryan Caplan
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Why Economics and Liberty?
2013/04/01, Art Carden
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Introducing Art Carden
2013/04/01, David Henderson
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Carden and Horwitz on Market Failure
2013/04/01, David Henderson
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Major Premium
2013/04/01, Bryan Caplan
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March 2013

David Stockman Screeches
2013/03/31, David Henderson
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Yglesias on Freedom in the 50 States
2013/03/30, David Henderson
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Starve the Beast Mark II: Deficits, Debt, and Spendthrift Grasshoppers
2013/03/30, Garett Jones
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Hummel on Bernanke's New Central Planning
2013/03/29, David Henderson
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Tax Hikes and Spending Cuts: Friends Across Europe
2013/03/28, Garett Jones
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Three Laws of Major Mismatch
2013/03/28, Bryan Caplan
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Scott Winship on Inequality
2013/03/27, David Henderson
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Policy Implications of the Marriage Premium
2013/03/27, Bryan Caplan
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Tax Hikes, then Spending Cuts: Not What "Starve the Beast" Predicted
2013/03/26, Garett Jones
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Career Day: The Life of an Econ Prof
2013/03/26, Bryan Caplan
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Vignettes from the Armen Alchian Memorial
2013/03/25, David Henderson
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9 Short Observations about the Marriage Premium
2013/03/25, Bryan Caplan
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Some Economics of Wal-Mart
2013/03/24, David Henderson
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On Human Evil: Concrete Down the Drain Edition
2013/03/23, Garett Jones
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Armen Alchian Memorial
2013/03/23, David Henderson
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Friday Night Video: Henderson on War for Oil
2013/03/22, David Henderson
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The Duty to Give Away Everything You Don't Need
2013/03/22, Bryan Caplan
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Corinne Sauer on U.S. Subsidies to Middle East
2013/03/22, David Henderson
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Brick's Insight on Childhood
2013/03/21, David Henderson
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The Rights of the World's Poor
2013/03/20, Bryan Caplan
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"Get Married and Stay Married"
2013/03/20, David Henderson
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Was the Iraq War About Oil?
2013/03/19, David Henderson
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Premia and Double Standards
2013/03/19, Bryan Caplan
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Immigration, the Minimum Wage, and Labor Demand Elasticity
2013/03/19, Bryan Caplan
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Assorted Tweets: Cyprus Speed Bankruptcy Edition
2013/03/18, Garett Jones
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The Hoover/Mellon Tax on Checks
2013/03/18, David Henderson
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End Military Aid to Israel and Egypt and ...
2013/03/17, David Henderson
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Mises on Death Panels (Implicitly)
2013/03/17, Bryan Caplan
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Remember: Sticky-Wage Keynesianism is a Supply Side Theory
2013/03/17, Garett Jones
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Cowen on Immigration
2013/03/16, David Henderson
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Scott Sumner on Real Causes of Business Cycles
2013/03/16, David Henderson
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Friday Night Video: Henderson and De Rugy on Canada and France
2013/03/15, David Henderson
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Yglesias on Narcissism
2013/03/15, David Henderson
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Kuttner and Norquist on Taxes: The Republicans Won
2013/03/15, David Henderson
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Inescapable Intuition
2013/03/15, Bryan Caplan
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If There's No Inflation, Why are Prices Up So Much?
2013/03/14, David Henderson
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Rand Paul's Filibuster
2013/03/13, David Henderson
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Designing Men vs. Spontaneous Order
2013/03/13, David Henderson
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The Myopic Empiricism of the Minimum Wage
2013/03/12, Bryan Caplan
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Overturning the Soda Ban: One Small Blow for Freedom
2013/03/11, David Henderson
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Thomas C. Leonard on Nudge
2013/03/11, David Henderson
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Dr. Henderson in Africa
2013/03/10, David Henderson
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Redistributing from Capitalists to Workers: An Impossibility Theorem
2013/03/09, Garett Jones
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How I Raise My Children
2013/03/09, Bryan Caplan
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Friday Night Video: Henderson on Economic Myths
2013/03/08, David Henderson
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Mueller on Nuclear Proliferation: Thinking on the Margin
2013/03/08, David Henderson
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Student Motivation: A Reply to Gelman
2013/03/08, Bryan Caplan
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TARP Bet Bleg
2013/03/07, Bryan Caplan
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Gelman the Education Optimist
2013/03/07, Bryan Caplan
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Bad Social Science: A Consequence of Consequentialism
2013/03/06, Bryan Caplan
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Highlights from Hummel's Macro Class
2013/03/06, David Henderson
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An Unwritten Minimum Grade Law Exists
2013/03/06, Garett Jones
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Bill Dickens vs. Me on Huemer
2013/03/05, Bryan Caplan
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Michael Barone's Mistaken Prediction
2013/03/05, David Henderson
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The Robber Barons: Neither Robbers Nor Barons
2013/03/04, David Henderson
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Assorted Tweets: Minimum Grade Law Edition
2013/03/04, Garett Jones
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Christina Romer on the Minimum Wage
2013/03/04, David Henderson
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The High Price of Doctors: A Disease of Regulation
2013/03/04, Bryan Caplan
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The Air Travel Revolution
2013/03/03, David Henderson
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Signaling Rules: Today Hollywood, Tomorrow the World
2013/03/03, Bryan Caplan
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Alfred and Mary Paley Marshall: Depressions as Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
2013/03/02, Garett Jones
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Why Am I So Cheerful?
2013/03/02, David Henderson
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The GiveWell-Clemens Brainstorm
2013/03/02, Bryan Caplan
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Garett Jones on the Supply of Doctors
2013/03/01, David Henderson
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Tim Kane and Means-Testing
2013/03/01, Bryan Caplan
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Sunil [2013/05/20 12:03 AM, How to Spend A Billion Dollars]:
Use it to bribe politicians to scrap as many laws as possible!...

Mark Brophy [2013/05/19 10:21 PM, Population Externality Bleg]:
According to Wikipedia, the population of Boston fell from 801,000 in 1950 ...

Salim [2013/05/19 08:45 PM, Population Externality Bleg]:
There's a tangentially similar notion in highway engineering: as you add mo...

Adam_Smith [2013/05/19 07:13 PM, Population Externality Bleg]:
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra (Said regardi...

Handle [2013/05/19 04:40 PM, Population Externality Bleg]:
@David: Things have changed. And they can change more - things can always...

Philo [2013/05/19 03:31 PM, Congestion Externality Bleg]:
So, David, what's the upshot? Were any of the comments helpful? Can you n...

Michael [2013/05/19 03:01 PM, Linda Gorman on How ObamaCare Treats Middle Class]:
Kevin, The National Income does track productivity - it's consistently bet...

David C [2013/05/19 01:43 PM, Population Externality Bleg]:
Woops! I left out what I think is the biggest reason for California's poor...

David C [2013/05/19 01:22 PM, Population Externality Bleg]:
@Handle Almost every state has effective one-party rule. In fact, Californ...

Nick J [2013/05/19 12:44 PM, Congestion Externality Bleg]:
I was thinking this morning about how to convince people that it is an exte...

Grant [2013/05/19 12:40 PM, Population Externality Bleg]:
Could extended protests count? Imagine there is a protest in the capital ci...

Bill [2013/05/19 12:21 PM, Congestion Externality Bleg]:
Another issue that should demand attention is whether a particular (level o...

Jeff [2013/05/19 12:16 PM, Population Externality Bleg]:
BC beat me to the Yogi Berra allusion. ...

Philo [2013/05/19 12:10 PM, Population Externality Bleg]:
(Echoing Brent.) The increased congestion externality would drive *down* t...

Joery Donuts [2013/05/19 11:23 AM, How to Spend A Billion Dollars]:
Have each agency that prepares a budget prepare two budgets for next year. ...

Handle [2013/05/19 10:24 AM, Population Externality Bleg]:
I think I see where you're going with this, immigration, open borders, yadd...

Brent [2013/05/19 09:19 AM, Population Externality Bleg]:
So it is congested but no one lives there? This seems like a negative netw...

BC [2013/05/19 07:24 AM, Population Externality Bleg]:
I believe that Yogi Berra once said about a restaurant, "Nobody goes there ...

Martin [2013/05/19 07:23 AM, Congestion Externality Bleg]:
David, The Numerical Example: The costs and benefits to A in the congeste...

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If you look at the price of real estate per sq ft or sq m, and look at the ...

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Himanshu Sanguri [2013/05/19 12:53 AM, Population Externality Bleg]:
I have observed the effects of congestion externality on the real estate pr...

Mark Bahner [2013/05/19 12:19 AM, How to Spend A Billion Dollars]:
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Buying off dictators is tempting, as their subjects are the most miserable,...

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How to Spend A Billion Dollars [Comments (116) ]:
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    Sunil: Use it to bribe politicians to scrap as many laws as possible!...

Population Externality Bleg [Comments (16) ]:
    Adam_Smith: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra (Said regardi...
    Salim: There's a tangentially similar notion in highway engineering: as you add mo...
    Mark Brophy: According to Wikipedia, the population of Boston fell from 801,000 in 1950 ...

Congestion Externality Bleg [Comments (34) ]:
    Bill: Another issue that should demand attention is whether a particular (level o...
    Nick J: I was thinking this morning about how to convince people that it is an exte...
    Philo: So, David, what's the upshot? Were any of the comments helpful? Can you n...

Linda Gorman on How ObamaCare Treats Middle Class [Comments (13) ]:
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    Jeffrey S.: "These are environments in which people make a lot of confident-but-(let's ...
    Kevin L: @Jeffrey S., my version of a response to the example in #4 would be that it...

Age and Common Sense [Comments (3) ]:
    Doug: I can't find the link, but I remember reading a paper arguing that most age...
    roystgnr: The book you mention is *by* Flynn, but there's no mention here of how easi...
    Himanshu Sanguri: I have also observed a pattern in old age professional, where they take som...

Look Out the Window, or, Stop and Smell the Bacon [Comments (7) ]:
    jc: Re: Krishnan And not every smell that many consider "negative" is negative...
    Nick Bormann: I think a serious answer to this would depend on measuring the timespan exp...
    jc: Re: Art A bit off topic, but since we're speaking about regulation... I s...

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