BRYAN CAPLAN
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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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...and here's why Lord of the Rings makes a truly awful AD&D campaign, even though it arguably kicked off the whole D&D thing...
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612
Normally I'm the one defending economics, but how many economics models have no holes in them? Comparative advantage is the only one that springs to mind. Everything else, even free trade, people quarrel with and you wind up arguing about empirical stuff.
Tracy, people quarrel with the credibility of the assumptions used. But given the assumptions, the models work, no logical gaps or holes. The quarrels are about credibility.