BRYAN CAPLAN
May 7, 2013
Keynesian Bets: What's Out There
May 6, 2013
Keynesian Bets Bleg
May 6, 2013
The Pyramid of Macroeconomic Insight and Virtue
May 2, 2013
A Natalist Provision
May 1, 2013
I Was a Teenage Misanthrope
DAVID HENDERSON
May 5, 2013
John Thacker on Vaccinations and the Sequester
May 3, 2013
Chef Rudy's Virtues Project
May 2, 2013
My take on Reinhart and Rogoff
May 1, 2013
Medicare Kills a Program
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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.