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The Right to Vote and the Right to Leave

A Basic Divide

I'll Shill for Hillary

If Merle Kling Could Have Met Brian Doherty

A Meditation on Minarchy

Insiders, Outsiders, and Voting Behavior

Assortative Living

Merle Kling

Daniel Klein on Libertarianism

American Excess

Be Careful What You Wish For

Public Opinion as a Political Speed Limit

Snippets of Subversive Folk Songs

The Medium and The Message

An Army of Spitzers

Selection and Politicians

Civil Disobedience Alert

Jonah Goldberg's Alternative Title

What Looks Good at This Year's Public Choice Meetings

The Civic Duty to Know Your Limits

The Right to Vote and the Right to Leave

A Basic Divide

I'll Shill for Hillary

If Merle Kling Could Have Met Brian Doherty

A Meditation on Minarchy

Insiders, Outsiders, and Voting Behavior

Assortative Living

Merle Kling

Daniel Klein on Libertarianism

American Excess

Be Careful What You Wish For

Public Opinion as a Political Speed Limit

Snippets of Subversive Folk Songs

The Medium and The Message

An Army of Spitzers

Selection and Politicians

Civil Disobedience Alert

Jonah Goldberg's Alternative Title

What Looks Good at This Year's Public Choice Meetings

The Civic Duty to Know Your Limits

Progressives, Eugenics, and Airbrushing

Security Symbolism

Life Under Socialism

I plead guilty to plagiarism

Put up with it

Paging Randle McMurphy

Does the Median Voter Model Explain Departmental Politics?

More on the Trouble with Minarchism

Anti-fascism

Conservative Fascism

The Trouble with Minarchism

Frank Knight on the Humility Factor

Sell-Out Symmetry

Trade and Hegemony

Some Wishful Prizes

Richard T. Ely, Founding Fascist

A Good Sentence

Outrunning a Bear

Mencius Moldbug Asks Some Questions

Liberal Fascism Watch

Politics and Cults

Virtual Political Economy

Pathological Individualism?

Predicting What Bryan will Write Sunday

Political Long Tail, Revisited

A Non-Pacifist Syllogism

A Russian Defends Rent-Seeking

Ambiguity and Disagreement

A Corporate State?

A Pacifist Syllogism

Popular Putin's Persecutions: What's the Point?

Basic Political Economy

Political Science

Selection Bias

The Engineering Mindset

Caplanians in the Ivy League?

The Personal is Political

Piling On

Two Metaphors for Government

Doug Campbell's Five-Page History of Public Choice

Becker vs. Caplan

Bon Mot

More on Journalists

Justin Wolfers on Divorce

Hindsight Bias

Where Haidt Falls Short

Confusion About Greenspan

Cultural Contradictions of LIbertarianism?

Morning Reading and Reactions

Foreword to Bryan's Book

Anarchy, the State, and Utopia

Various Links

Which Economists to Trust?

The Context and the Leader

Positive Freedom, Negative Freedom, and Wealth

The Most Aggravating Sentence I've Read This Month

How the Rational Voter Assumption Derails Promising Research

Best Counter-Example to the Median Voter Model I've Seen In a Long Time

Ballots Are Better than Bullets

P. J. O'Rourke has Competition

Anti-Finance Bias

A Political Prediction

In Which Ezra Shows Why He is not Close to Conversion

MRV update

Internet and Ideology

Myth of the Rational...

Confucianism vs. Irrational Voters

The Tug-of-War over Capitalism

Against MRV

Reply to Grier on Venezuela

Bryan Gets Some Pushback

Ideological Games of Tug-of-War

Private Law Enforcement

North and Weingast

Immigration, Libertarianism, and Democracy

Drum Roll Please...

Questioning Libertarian Coercion Arguments

Would Ageless People be Libertarian?

How Irrational are Voters?

Rodrik and Economic Policy Reform

Government is not going away

What is a Collapse?

State of Fear

A Theory of Government

Libertarianism's Crisis

David Friedman on Taxis and Tipping

Taxes and Tipping

Tyler on the Problems of Libertarians

Shimer on Acemoglu

Church and State

"Pro-Gamer Groups Oppose Dungeons & Dragons"

Hayek and Fusionism

Rational Autocrats

Politics, Economics, and Religion

Libertarian Principles

Milton Friedman Day

Multiple Choice

Telling Bias Stories

Avoiding Truth

Notes on Critical Review's Converse issue

Political Beliefs and Self-Deception

Clive Crook on Milton Friedman

My Take of Milton Friedman

On Milton Friedman

Technocrats and Populists

Brad DeLong is Fantasy-Based

Faith in Leaders

One Manifesto, Two Responses

Democracy's Vices

Lawyers in Government

Capitalism, Democracy, and Polygamy

Murray Edelman and the Myth of the Rational Voter


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May 6, 2008

The Right to Vote and the Right to Leave



Ibsen Martinez writes about the perception that Chile's economic success is tainted by its origins in the Pinochet regime. Sadly......MORE

May 5, 2008

A Basic Divide



Greg Mankiw writes, If you think it is the job of government to take from Peter to pay Paul, and......MORE

May 4, 2008

I'll Shill for Hillary



Hillary's having trouble finding an economist to back her suspension of the gas tax. But she need look no further......MORE

May 3, 2008

If Merle Kling Could Have Met Brian Doherty



Imagine in 1958 an innocent Associate Professor of Political Science spending a summer in Mexico and getting mixed up with......MORE

April 30, 2008

A Meditation on Minarchy



Charles Kessler writes, continued growth of government is not inevitable. But a word of caution: Neither is big government’s demise......MORE

April 26, 2008

Insiders, Outsiders, and Voting Behavior



Tyler Cowen writes, real world political debate is not fundamentally a macro-cosm of the thought processes of a smart person,......MORE

April 22, 2008

Assortative Living



Reviewing a book by Bill Bishop, Alan Ehrenhalt writes, there is one simple statistic, rightly seized on by Mr. Bishop,......MORE

April 10, 2008

Merle Kling



His obituary is in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Merle Kling, retired provost, dean and professor of political science at Washington......MORE

April 7, 2008

Daniel Klein on Libertarianism



For an encyclopedia, he writes, In the eyes of the libertarian, everything the government does that would be deemed coercive......MORE

April 7, 2008

American Excess



From a longer essay on Inequality and Excess: I feel awkward and defensive when the subject of economic inequality comes......MORE

April 7, 2008

Be Careful What You Wish For



Dean Baker writes, Remarkably, the Post editorial writers seem to be the only ones who have noticed that the Senate......MORE

March 27, 2008

Public Opinion as a Political Speed Limit



Suppose someone said: "People drive 5-15 miles over the speed limit. It's obvious, then, that speed limits have no effect......MORE

March 24, 2008

Snippets of Subversive Folk Songs



I have not had much time to pursue the folk song idea, but I have written a few snippets. [now......MORE

March 18, 2008

The Medium and The Message



Not the topic du jour, by any means, but one that has interested me for a long time. Megan McArdle......MORE

March 14, 2008

An Army of Spitzers



Amidst the tawdriness, I attempt to draw a real lesson. Suppose that we define "Spitzer" as someone who believes in......MORE

March 10, 2008

Selection and Politicians



Today's news (usually not my best blog topic) is Eliot Spitzer. When I heard about his, er, affair, I started......MORE

March 6, 2008

Civil Disobedience Alert



The LA Times reports, Parents who lack teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home, according to a state appellate......MORE

March 5, 2008

Jonah Goldberg's Alternative Title



He writes, the one thing libertarians grasp better than conservatives or liberals is the danger of the category error when......MORE

March 4, 2008

What Looks Good at This Year's Public Choice Meetings



Thursday through Sunday, I'll be at the 2008 Public Choice meetings for the first time since I became a dad.......MORE

March 4, 2008

The Civic Duty to Know Your Limits



Selwyn Duke says it short and sweet in "Why Most Voters Shouldn't Vote":Most of us agree that having an educated......MORE


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