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Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan: Archives

Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute. Caplan's articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Law and Economics, Social Science Quarterly, and numerous other outlets. His webpage, http://www.bcaplan.com, features both his academic research and his numerous other interests, including the online Museum of Communism.

Bryan Caplan co-edits EconLog, along with Arnold Kling and David Henderson

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Recent EconLog Articles by Bryan Caplan

July 2009

Idolatry in a Free Society
2009/07/03
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Great Questions, Matt
2009/07/02
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A Closer Look at Adverse Selection and Mandatory Insurance
2009/07/01
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June 2009

Why Traditionalists Should Prefer Libertines to Hypocrites
2009/06/30
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Genetics and the Future of Religion
2009/06/29
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Nobody Speaking
2009/06/29
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What's Wrong With Realism? What's Right With It? Part 1
2009/06/29
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The Political Economy of Geoengineering
2009/06/28
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Why Bernanke Should Be Canned
2009/06/26
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Against Growth Agnosticism
2009/06/26
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Sumner, Wilson, Harding, Keynes
2009/06/26
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More Gems from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
2009/06/25
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Retrospective Voting: Worse Than Chance
2009/06/24
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The Bill Gates Mystery
2009/06/24
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The Shield: Social Intelligence Gets Ugly
2009/06/23
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Insurance as a Prisoners' Dilemma
2009/06/22
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The Not-So Fundamental Attribution Error
2009/06/19
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My Favorite Convert
2009/06/18
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How I Raised My Social Intelligence
2009/06/17
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Sumner: An Embarassment of Riches
2009/06/16
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In Defense of Low Correlations
2009/06/15
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Myth of the Rational Voter, California Initiative Edition
2009/06/15
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Does Personality Matter? Compared to What?
2009/06/14
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Tyler Should Bet Against Obama-Care
2009/06/14
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The Myth of the Rational Voter, Minimum Wage Edition
2009/06/12
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Russ's Challenge
2009/06/12
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In a Perfect World, I'd Call Myself a Sociologist
2009/06/11
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HMOs Died Because They Worked
2009/06/10
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Behavioral Geneticists vs. Policy Implications: The Case of Child Care
2009/06/10
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How Markets Value the Welfare of the Poor: Follow-up to A Non-Socratic Dialogue
2009/06/09
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Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications
2009/06/08
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Isn't That Just an Asian Effect?
2009/06/07
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Pays Cuts: Are They For Real?
2009/06/06
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An Unanswered Question on the Economics of Suicide
2009/06/05
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Did Obama Restore Confidence?
2009/06/04
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Backwards Induction in The Lookout
2009/06/04
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Pessimistic Bias Strikes Again?
2009/06/03
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The Parental Wish List: What's Missing?
2009/06/03
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Good Question
2009/06/02
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Portfolios of the Poor: Highlights
2009/06/02
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Thumbs Up for Portfolios of the Poor
2009/06/01
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May 2009

Economics and Modernity
2009/05/30
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Hanson on Morality
2009/05/29
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Mankiw on Morality
2009/05/29
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Quiggin Takes My Euro-Bet
2009/05/28
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The Nuances of EU Unemployment
2009/05/27
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Unemployment, Labor Market Regulation, and Sour Grapes
2009/05/26
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An Abstract that Whets My Appetite
2009/05/26
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Against the Human Development Index
2009/05/22
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I'll Bet On It: In the Long-Run, European Unemployment Will Be Higher
2009/05/21
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Unemployment: Do Europhiles Have Anything to Celebrate?
2009/05/21
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The Irrepressible Boettke
2009/05/20
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Who Says Austrians Don't Do Good Empirical Work?
2009/05/20
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The Other Demographic Suicide
2009/05/20
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Exactly Wrong: The Real Unintended Consequences of New Credit Card Regs
2009/05/19
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One-Party Democracy Is Not Coming: I'll Bet on It!
2009/05/19
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Must-Read Hanson
2009/05/18
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The Case Against Libertarian Hispanophobia
2009/05/18
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Should Make-Work Count?
2009/05/16
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Meritocracy Without Borders
2009/05/16
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It's Not Who You Know, It's Who You Are
2009/05/15
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Good Answer!
2009/05/15
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Funniest Macro Line of the Month
2009/05/14
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Swine Flu and Hand-Shaking: A Question from the Final Exam
2009/05/14
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I Repent; I Shall Revise My Labor Econ Notes
2009/05/14
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Why Do Politicians Break Their Promises? Part 2
2009/05/14
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Bernanke and "The Great Moderation" in Hindsight
2009/05/13
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How Did For a New Liberty Influence MRV?
2009/05/13
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EconLog Book Club Round-up: Ask Me Any Question About For a New Liberty
2009/05/12
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Congenitally Entrepreneurial
2009/05/11
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This Changes Nothing
2009/05/11
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The Walled Garden That Never Was
2009/05/10
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The Inflation Illusion?
2009/05/09
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Sacerdote's Dog That Didn't Bark
2009/05/09
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The Present and the Future
2009/05/08
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Wage Cuts: Do Well While Doing Good
2009/05/07
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Why Wage Cuts Are Good For Aggregate Demand
2009/05/07
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Patri Friedman Reads Atlas Shrugged
2009/05/06
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The Dictator's Handbook: Read It
2009/05/06
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 15
2009/05/05
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Robin's Wishful Thinking
2009/05/04
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Why Do Politicians Break Their Promises? Part 1
2009/05/04
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Reformers Against Democracy
2009/05/04
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April 2009

Mueller's Theory, Wilkinson's Practice
2009/04/29
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Cry Panic!
2009/04/29
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 14
2009/04/28
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When You Put It That Way, Scott...
2009/04/28
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Crisis Dialogue
2009/04/28
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Stocks, Flows, and Friendship
2009/04/27
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Szasz on the Turing Tragedy
2009/04/24
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Why Do Married Men Make So Much Money?
2009/04/24
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Caplan-Hanson Debate Video
2009/04/24
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Parents' Costs versus Childrens' Benefits - Does the Ratio Matter?
2009/04/23
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Can Billions of Parents Be Wrong?
2009/04/22
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Best Ridicule of the Week
2009/04/22
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Do Parents Affect How Long You Live?
2009/04/22
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 13
2009/04/21
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A Trillion Nazis Versus the Trolley Problem
2009/04/21
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The Book Mike Huemer Should Write
2009/04/21
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Is There a Right to Immigrate?
2009/04/20
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Free Will and Behavioral Genetics
2009/04/20
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Lee Kuan Yew's Immigration Contradiction
2009/04/18
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The Pledge for Efficiency versus the Attack on Signaling
2009/04/17
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How Persuasive Is a Reputation for Consistent Advocacy of Efficiency?
2009/04/16
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Sumner's Free Trade Example
2009/04/16
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If You Could Take Any Econ Course in the World, What Would It Be?
2009/04/15
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Who Loses From Efficiency?
2009/04/15
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Are Grotesque Hypotheticals Cheap Shots?
2009/04/15
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 12
2009/04/14
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Pre-Debate Disagreement
2009/04/12
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Singapore's Independence: What Was the Point?
2009/04/11
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Friedman vs. Doherty: Help Me Take a Side
2009/04/10
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The Banana Subsidy Bubble?
2009/04/10
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Democracy: What We Want Is What We Get
2009/04/09
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Will Obama Consider Geoengineering?
2009/04/08
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Ben Bernanke Explains Systemic Risk
2009/04/08
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From the Preface of My Next Book
2009/04/08
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 11
2009/04/07
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Israel, Palestine, and the Enlightened Preference Approach
2009/04/06
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Hong Kong: The Envy of Lee Kuan Yew
2009/04/05
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Joe Sacco's Palestine: Some Unanswered Questions
2009/04/04
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Harris: The Postcard Version
2009/04/01
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A Conversation With Judy Harris
2009/04/01
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March 2009

EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 10
2009/03/31
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Temper, Temper: How Kids Grade Their Parents - and Parents Grade Themselves
2009/03/30
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Behavioral Genetics and the Single Economist
2009/03/29
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How Will Daniel Akst Like Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids?
2009/03/27
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Sacerdote Replies
2009/03/26
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Adjective-Coefficient Disconnect in Sacerdote
2009/03/26
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 9
2009/03/24
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Was Gorbachev the Most Influential Man of the Second Half of the 20th Century?
2009/03/24
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Answer for Question from My Last Ph.D. Micro Midterm
2009/03/24
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Question from My Last Ph.D. Micro Midterm
2009/03/23
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You Will Know the Disgrace
2009/03/21
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What A Sensible Keynesian Would Say
2009/03/19
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Wisest Sentence of the Day
2009/03/19
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Free Trade Petition
2009/03/19
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Since You Asked
2009/03/18
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 8
2009/03/17
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Indirect Effects of the Laissez-Faire Family?
2009/03/16
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Love and Economics: A Guide from the Perplexed
2009/03/15
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What Does the Betting Norm Tax?
2009/03/14
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Stossel Clip
2009/03/14
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The Mankiw-Krugman Non-Bet
2009/03/11
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Don't Miss the Next Stossel
2009/03/11
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Changeling, Feminism, and Szasz
2009/03/11
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EconLog Book Club Resumes Next Week
2009/03/10
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Change I Believe In
2009/03/10
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Democracy in Middle Earth
2009/03/10
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Is Greed in the Genes?
2009/03/09
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Watchmen Non-Spoiler
2009/03/07
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Two Mea Culpas
2009/03/06
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Quality Comment
2009/03/05
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Ayn Rand Villains Walk the Earth!
2009/03/05
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The Art of Equanimity
2009/03/05
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The Monetary Mechanism
2009/03/04
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 7
2009/03/03
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Jim Rogers: What He's Saying, Where He's Gone
2009/03/03
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Vertical LM is Not Vertical AS
2009/03/03
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Is U.S. Defamation Law Going Singaporean?
2009/03/03
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Why People Hate the Octomom
2009/03/02
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Fiscal Futility: Helping Brad Understand
2009/03/02
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Department of Double Standards
2009/03/02
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February 2009

Two Observations on Milk
2009/02/28
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Macroeconomic Identity Politics
2009/02/27
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Food and the Family: Weighing the Power of Culinary Nagging
2009/02/26
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Caplan-Hanson Debate: Now Taking Requests
2009/02/25
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For a New Liberty on iTunes
2009/02/24
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 6
2009/02/24
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Parents and Buyer's Remorse: Lessons from the Lost Newsday Study
2009/02/23
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Having More Kids: Don't Ask, Do Tell
2009/02/21
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The Principal of Convenience
2009/02/20
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Buying Inefficiency: Federal $ and State Medicaid Spending
2009/02/19
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How a Rational Politician Treats Irrational Voters
2009/02/19
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The Resonance of Libertarian Oratory
2009/02/19
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Two Paradoxes of Singaporean Political Economy
2009/02/18
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 5
2009/02/17
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Will's Challenge
2009/02/16
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We Coulda Had a Payroll Tax Holiday
2009/02/16
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Austrian Challenge: What Would the Macroeconomy on the 100% Gold Standard Look Like?
2009/02/16
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Anti-Economist Bias Yes, Conservative Bias No
2009/02/13
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What Happened to American Unions?
2009/02/12
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Nostalgianomics, A Cato Gem
2009/02/12
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My Analysis Is...
2009/02/12
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British Flynn Effect Reverses
2009/02/11
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 4
2009/02/10
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Does Gravity Kill?
2009/02/09
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If Russ Roberts Was a Journalist, I Might Read Newspapers
2009/02/07
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The Remote Control Puzzle
2009/02/07
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Jones on CNN Money
2009/02/06
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Block, Hazlitt, DeLong, Me, and the Noble Lie
2009/02/05
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 3
2009/02/03
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Organ Selling in Singapore: The Sad Real Story
2009/02/03
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Fraud and Punishment
2009/02/01
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January 2009

Blame Others, Hurt Yourself
2009/01/30
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What Does a Szaszian Therapist Do?
2009/01/30
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The Power of Love
2009/01/30
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Throw Your Vote Away - Vote for a Second Party
2009/01/28
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Singapore Fact of the Day
2009/01/27
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 2
2009/01/26
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The Charge of Creepiness
2009/01/26
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Why People Don't Want More Kids, and What It Means
2009/01/25
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EconLog Book Club: FANL Chapter 2 for Monday
2009/01/24
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Me in the Chronicle: Free Version
2009/01/23
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Legal Kidney Selling in Singapore and the International Economy
2009/01/23
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Pinker's Genome
2009/01/23
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Kidney Selling Coming Soon to Singapore!
2009/01/22
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Is Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity on the Way Out?
2009/01/22
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Historical Body Counts
2009/01/21
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Block Owes Me a Buck
2009/01/20
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 1
2009/01/20
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Robin's Dangerous Question
2009/01/20
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Me in the Chronicle of Higher Education
2009/01/20
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The Origin of Singaporean Crime Policy
2009/01/19
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Coasean Fortune Cookie of the Day
2009/01/17
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Becker on Over-Hasty Conversion
2009/01/16
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Posner's Primer on Wage Rigidity
2009/01/16
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What If Fama Was a Protectionist?
2009/01/15
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Fama and Fiscal Policy
2009/01/15
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Grist for Arnold's Mill
2009/01/14
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What Counts as Evidence that the Bailout Worked?
2009/01/14
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EconLog Book Club on For a New Liberty?
2009/01/14
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Can Singapore Understand Biology and Economics at the Same Time?
2009/01/13
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The Psychology of Gran Torino
2009/01/13
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Peacenik Sound Byte of the Day
2009/01/12
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Critical Review Symposium on My Book
2009/01/12
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The Sophistry of the Balanced Budget Multiplier
2009/01/12
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The Smart Way to Do Nothing
2009/01/11
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Two Quick Points on Kling v. Surowiecki
2009/01/11
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The Good News Will Cost You
2009/01/10
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Lindbeck, Weibull, and God
2009/01/10
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Some Counterproductive Candor About a Payroll Tax Cut
2009/01/09
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Contractor Cutoffs
2009/01/09
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More Laughs in Economics
2009/01/09
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How Singapore Sells Co-Payment
2009/01/08
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Educational Obsession in Pop Culture
2009/01/08
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Smart Stimulus, II: The Healy Grant
2009/01/08
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It's Funny Because It's True
2009/01/07
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Smart Stimulus
2009/01/07
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Female Protectionism Redux
2009/01/06
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Except Seasteading
2009/01/06
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Policy All the Way Down
2009/01/06
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What's Wrong With the Cartoon Guide to American History
2009/01/05
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Who Are These People?
2009/01/03
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Wages of the Dead
2009/01/01
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The Crisis Prophet Speaks
2009/01/01
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December 2008

Try This on Your Favorite Curmudgeons
2008/12/31
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Tyrannicide: Now in a Theater Near You
2008/12/31
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I Refused to Shake His Hand
2008/12/30
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The Law: Going from Bad to Worse
2008/12/25
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History + Comedy = Rothbard
2008/12/24
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Education, Ideology, and Awkward Weddings
2008/12/23
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Separating Twins as Economic Illiteracy
2008/12/22
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If You Want Peace, Prepare for Peace
2008/12/17
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Best Passage in Years Containing the Words "Absolute Certainty"
2008/12/17
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Dreaming the Simonian Dream
2008/12/16
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Longevity and the Work Ethic
2008/12/16
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New Deal Panel
2008/12/16
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Bruer Update
2008/12/16
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Where Are All the Jerks in My Life?
2008/12/14
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Cold Spouses
2008/12/12
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What's Wrong With Urban Politics?
2008/12/11
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Schleicher's Model of One-Party Democracy
2008/12/10
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The Puzzle of One-Party Democracy
2008/12/10
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The Immortal Dilemma
2008/12/09
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Neuroscience and Policy: Bait and Switch
2008/12/09
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The Painted Veil: Best Gender Conflict Scene Ever
2008/12/08
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All You Ever Needed to Know About Nationalism, but Were Afraid to Ask
2008/12/07
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Crisis Prophet
2008/12/05
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Moderate Muslim Malaysia: What I Saw
2008/12/04
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Great White Parenthetical
2008/12/03
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Kane's Pledge
2008/12/03
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The Immigrant in My Basement
2008/12/02
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Best Banking: Animal Analogy Ever
2008/12/01
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Return to Neptune, III: Do Tax Breaks Mimic the Market?
2008/12/01
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Return to Neptune, II: The Corporate Income Tax
2008/12/01
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Return to Neptune, I: Incidence
2008/12/01
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He is a Pirate King
2008/12/01
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November 2008

Becker Embraces Unhappiness Research
2008/11/29
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Spotted on the Walls of the Singapore Civil Service College Conference Room
2008/11/29
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Democracy in Singapore: How Is One-Party Rule Possible?
2008/11/28
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Singapore Gives Thanks
2008/11/27
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Roderick Long and the Tiny Gnomes from Neptune
2008/11/26
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Singapore's Policy Secret: Economic Literacy, Deference, or Resignation?
2008/11/26
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Singapore: Where Do I Start?
2008/11/26
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From the Cutting Room Floor: The Rationality of Donors
2008/11/14
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From the Cutting Room Floor: The Rationality of Juries
2008/11/14
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The Lorelai Paradox
2008/11/13
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Hamilton Scoffs at Deflation and the Liquidity Trap
2008/11/13
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How Are Stocks Like Bonds?
2008/11/13
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When Do You Disbelieve a "Change of Heart"?
2008/11/12
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Hoover Blasts His Opponents
2008/11/12
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"The American Disease": View from 1989
2008/11/12
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Hoover Sings His Own Praises
2008/11/11
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Mr. Caplan Goes to Singapore
2008/11/11
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What If I Were Dr. Doom?
2008/11/10
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Twilight of the Twilight of the Gods
2008/11/10
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Why the Left Should Not Forgive the American Voter
2008/11/07
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In Defense of Rationalist Clubs
2008/11/07
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Reword This Question
2008/11/06
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Compensation for Immigration
2008/11/06
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Are Economists As Smart as They Think They Are?
2008/11/05
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Hoover: The Myth of Free Trade
2008/11/05
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Epicurus and Elections
2008/11/05
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The Pump, the Pension, and the Pain
2008/11/05
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How McCain Could Have Won
2008/11/04
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Watch Walter Block Defend Common Sense, Part 2
2008/11/03
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Watch Walter Block Defend Common Sense
2008/11/03
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Block and Me on FRB
2008/11/03
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What Did Hoover Say, and When Did He Say It? Unraveling Rothbard's Mysterious Footnote
2008/11/03
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October 2008

Left versus Right: What's the Big Deal?
2008/10/31
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If This is Polite Society, What is Rude Society Like?
2008/10/29
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Channel Charles Murray
2008/10/29
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Stossel Parody
2008/10/29
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Corrupt Bargains
2008/10/28
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Are We in a Liquidity Trap After All?
2008/10/28
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Where Is the Political Flynn Effect?
2008/10/26
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Government Conspiracy to Silence Mankiw
2008/10/26
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Precogs at the Onion
2008/10/26
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Whatever Happened to Gridlock?
2008/10/25
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Recession During the Cold War: What Was It Like? What's Wrong With Us Now?
2008/10/25
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We're Not in a Liquidity Trap
2008/10/24
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Tabarrok Truth-Tracker
2008/10/24
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The Underground Economist
2008/10/24
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EconLog Welcomes Guest Blogger David Henderson
2008/10/24
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Economic Crisis: Lessons from 1932
2008/10/23
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Department of "What?"
2008/10/21
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Is Obama the Next FDR?
2008/10/21
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How to Scare a Kid
2008/10/21
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Why Don't the Chinese Learn from Singapore?
2008/10/20
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Taxation Under Tiebout
2008/10/20
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Why Are Bartenders So Rude?
2008/10/18
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Becker on the Pundits that Cried "Wolf!"
2008/10/17
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Sub-Prime Education
2008/10/16
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Gasoline Delivery: Inside the Black Box
2008/10/16
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Murray and Me
2008/10/14
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Klein Answers the Davos Question
2008/10/14
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Howard Stern Gets Hansonian
2008/10/13
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Paul's Nobel: Nicht Ein Unrecht
2008/10/13
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Panic Puzzle
2008/10/12
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Scratch Beginnings and the Philosophy of Immigration
2008/10/12
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Chuck's Great Question
2008/10/10
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Stossel and Me
2008/10/10
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Why Charles Murray Should Take Signaling Seriously
2008/10/10
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Why Do People Keep Calling Tyler a Market Fundamentalist?
2008/10/09
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Bet Update
2008/10/09
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See Blindness
2008/10/08
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Frankly Fundamentalist
2008/10/08
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The Bailout Will Lose Money, and I'm Ready to Bet On It
2008/10/07
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China's Unsung Pollution Problem
2008/10/07
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What Samuelson Said About Inflation in the 70s
2008/10/07
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Is Ignorant Dogmatism Possible? I'm Afraid So.
2008/10/03
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What If the Median Voter Were a Failing Student?
2008/10/03
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Economists' Bipartisan Bailout Opposition
2008/10/02
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Another Deleted Scene from MRV: The Benefits of Overestimating the Dangers of Inflation
2008/10/02
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What the Bail-Out Crowded Out
2008/10/01
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September 2008

Son of Chrysler: The Stealth Bail-Out
2008/09/30
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Paulson as a High-Pressure Telemarketer
2008/09/30
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How Would We Know If a Bail-Out Worked? Take Your Stand
2008/09/30
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Public Opinion and the Bail-Out
2008/09/29
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Canadian Caplania
2008/09/29
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I Don't Want to Be a Paul Ehrlich
2008/09/29
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Political Put-Down of the Year
2008/09/29
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Opposition to the Bail-Out: Strange Bedfellows
2008/09/28
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Getting to Bet
2008/09/28
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Why Did Financial Markets Like Nixon's Price Controls?
2008/09/26
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Nailing Down a Kessler Bet
2008/09/26
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Will the Paulson Plan Turn a Profit? Let's Bet
2008/09/25
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Heinlein on Voting: Would You Bet Your Life On It?
2008/09/25
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Is the Bail-Out Based on Debt Illusion?
2008/09/25
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Ridiculous Regs the Median Voter Doesn't Want
2008/09/25
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The Experts Strike Back
2008/09/23
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I'm Going to See Singapore for Myself!
2008/09/23
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Hunger in Maus
2008/09/23
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Where Are the Demagogues When You Need Them?
2008/09/21
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Why Only Bush Could Bring Socialism to America
2008/09/21
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SEC Demagoguery
2008/09/19
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Klein, Clark, and the Liberty Maxim
2008/09/19
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Two Interesting Things James Hamilton Told Me
2008/09/18
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An Ex Ante Aneurysm
2008/09/17
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Who Said It?
2008/09/17
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Nudging Marriage
2008/09/16
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Twilight of the Idols
2008/09/14
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A Deleted Scene from MRV
2008/09/11
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When Is It Wrong To Vote?
2008/09/11
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In Praise of Corny Canadian Politicians
2008/09/11
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Putin's Textbooks; or, Why Russians Should Embrace Russophobia
2008/09/11
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Mankiw, Tyler, and Me
2008/09/09
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How Banking Panics Worked Before the Fed
2008/09/09
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What's the Legal Basis for the Freddie/Fannie Takeover?
2008/09/08
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Give Me Some Fair Questions
2008/09/08
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How Dems and Reps Differ: Against the Conventional Wisdom
2008/09/07
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Do I Take Teasing Too Seriously?
2008/09/04
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The Binary Fallacy
2008/09/04
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Two Arguments for Democratic Failure that Don't Convince Me
2008/09/02
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Pete Leeson Guest Blogging at Freakonomics
2008/09/02
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August 2008

A Deeper Look at Economic Bias
2008/08/29
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Public Opinion About Trade in the Muslim World
2008/08/28
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Mining Mill
2008/08/28
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Fear of Looking Rich Redux
2008/08/27
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My Answers to My Questions for Civil Libertarian Economists
2008/08/27
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The Myth of the Rational Voter Now in Paperback
2008/08/26
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Questions for Civil Libertarian Economists
2008/08/25
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Are Refineries Really a Bottleneck?
2008/08/24
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Raise Your Standards, Control Yourself
2008/08/22
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Hail Scott Adams
2008/08/22
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Remembering '68
2008/08/21
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Is Arnold Getting Happy?
2008/08/21
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In Defense of the Obvious
2008/08/20
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How Schooling is Like Garbage Collection
2008/08/19
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Let Immigration Be My Hammer
2008/08/18
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Charles Murray's Solution to Signaling
2008/08/18
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The Anti-Hansonian Heuristic
2008/08/18
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How Evil is that Sheep?
2008/08/12
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Kids, Opera, and Local Status
2008/08/12
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There's No Evidence Like No Evidence
2008/08/11
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Optimal Citation in the Google Age
2008/08/11
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Tom Strong, Compelling Coasean Comics Character
2008/08/11
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The Right Reaction to Bubbles: Easy Come, Easy Go
2008/08/08
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The Secret of Good Games
2008/08/08
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Hummel on Central Banking
2008/08/07
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Antitrust for Hong Kong?
2008/08/07
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Scott Page Makes Diversity Respectable
2008/08/06
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Gelman's Graphical Treat
2008/08/05
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Gelman's Great Book
2008/08/04
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Two Talks on Voter Irrationality
2008/08/04
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Are Central Banks the Most Efficient State Enterprise? Hummel's Answer and My Explanation
2008/08/04
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The Best of Solzhenitsyn
2008/08/03
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Should You Lose Sleep Over Global Catastrophic Risks?
2008/08/02
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The Demand for Ectogenesis
2008/08/01
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July 2008

Against Self-Subversion
2008/07/31
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The Nation vs. "The Economists"
2008/07/31
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Singaporean Sense
2008/07/30
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Letting Students Drop a Question: A Big Mistake
2008/07/29
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Goldberger Explains Why My Referee Was Wrong
2008/07/29
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The Misanthropic Magisterium
2008/07/28
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Maybe the Variance of Gas Prices Actually Has Increased
2008/07/27
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What to Learn from the XM-Sirius Merger: The "Friends of the Consumer" Are Your Enemy
2008/07/25
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Public Goods and Pedagogy
2008/07/25
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Posner Gets Behavioral
2008/07/24
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Will I Win My Oil Bet? The Wolfers Factor
2008/07/23
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Does Parental Divorce Cause Offspring Divorce?
2008/07/23
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Public Choice Outreach Seminar 2008
2008/07/22
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A "Why Not?" Moment
2008/07/22
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Why Read The Watchmen?
2008/07/22
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How Many Americans Could Pass the Citizenship Test?
2008/07/22
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The Social Costs of Getting Out the Vote
2008/07/21
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Do HSAs Work? Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
2008/07/20
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A Hobbesian Thought Experiment
2008/07/20
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Are Central Banks the Most Efficient State Enterprise?
2008/07/18
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Fools and Their Money
2008/07/18
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Complete Y: The Last Man Now Available
2008/07/17
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Department of Yay: The American Baby Boomlet
2008/07/17
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Sacerdote, Feyrer, Kids, and Gender Conflict
2008/07/15
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Disastrous Voting
2008/07/15
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Two Heuristics to Live By When You Don't Know What You're Doing
2008/07/14
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Humility Reconsidered
2008/07/14
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The Case for Libertaran Friendliness
2008/07/14
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Fairness Norms Breaking Down at the Airport - and Good Riddance!
2008/07/12
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When Has Independence Been Worth the Price?
2008/07/04
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Bryan Caplan Politely Declines to Join the Pigou Club
2008/07/03
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My IHS Lectures
2008/07/02
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Bad News for Me?
2008/07/02
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Cowen and Simon
2008/07/01
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Population Projection Tool
2008/07/01
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A Splendidly Undignified Hatchet Job
2008/07/01
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Was Julian Simon a Technical Analyst?
2008/07/01
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