ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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You mean like Philosophy, Byran? Zing!!!
I wonder when your L&O episode is comming up.
que: "No, wait, that's different..."
*roll*
Wow! the article you link to: "The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness" applies reams of common sense to the most contentious areas of Szasz's scholarship. Any chance you'll do a book with him?
Student: I believe Bryan's point isn't that one needs or doesn't need a doctorate to be credible. It's that one should be consistent in applying either the stricter or the more lenient standard. That is, it's inconsistent to fault Cruise for speaking on psychology without a doctorate AND to not fault Bono for speaking on development economics without a doctorate.
It's not prime-time TV, but see Bono get mcoked here in (of all places) the left-wing Guardian in the UK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1778683,00.html
Perhaps if Cruise were to campaign for public approval as Bono does. . .
All the Law & Order shows tend to reflect the worldview of its producers and writers. Psychotherapy has been popular in showbiz circles for many decades. (David O. Selznick's own experience as an analysand led him to make "Spellbound.")
When the detectives and prosecutors on a L&O show can't figure out a suspect or witness, they usually call a forensic psychologist who then provides a quick, accurate and confident analysis.