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Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Law and Economics, Social Science Quarterly, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and many other outlets.

Bryan Caplan is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. His current project is a new book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think.

His webpage, http://www.bcaplan.com, features both his academic research and his numerous other interests, including the online Museum of Communism.

Bryan Caplan blogs on EconLog along with Arnold Kling and David Henderson.

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Recent EconLog Articles by Bryan Caplan

February 2012

My Two Favorite Graphs From Coming Apart
2012/02/03
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"How Deserving Are the Poor?": My Opening Statement
2012/02/02
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What's So Special About Huemer's New Book?
2012/02/01
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A Freedman's Moral Intuition
2012/02/01
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January 2012

Arnold and Education: Getting to Bet
2012/01/31
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Name Michael Huemer's New Book
2012/01/31
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Bet for Arnold: Education Is Stably Wasteful
2012/01/31
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Social Capital, Property Values, and Salam
2012/01/31
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Why Should We Restrict Immigration?
2012/01/27
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Discontinuity and the Real World
2012/01/27
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Wing-Walking Revisited
2012/01/26
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Caplan-Smith GMU Debate: "How Deserving Are the Poor?"
2012/01/26
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Nominal GDP and PSST
2012/01/26
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Murray's Blind Spots
2012/01/25
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Antitrust Kills
2012/01/24
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The College Premium vs. the Marriage Premium: A Case of Double Standards
2012/01/23
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Quiggin on the Caplan-Quiggin Bet
2012/01/23
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The Present Value of a Sheepskin
2012/01/20
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The Constitutionality of Useless Regulation
2012/01/19
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Tell Me the Difference Between My Lai and Hiroshima
2012/01/19
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Tyler's Embarrassing Question and Major Concession
2012/01/18
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Great Stagnation or Great Vacation?
2012/01/18
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An Optimist's Take on Charles Murray's Coming Apart
2012/01/17
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Real Real GDP
2012/01/14
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Planets, Life, and the Fermi Paradox
2012/01/13
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Give Me A Dozen Examples
2012/01/12
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The Demented Pacifism of Irving Fisher
2012/01/11
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Return to "What Could President Paul Actually Do?"
2012/01/10
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Eureka! Economic Illiteracy as Mental Substitution
2012/01/10
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Kahneman, Mental Effort, and the Scary Parole Study
2012/01/09
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Wilkinson, Rogoff, and the Presumption in Favor of Economic Growth
2012/01/08
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How Egalitarianism Increases Inequality
2012/01/07
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Democracy: Worse Than I Thought
2012/01/06
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Macaulay on Signaling
2012/01/06
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Correction on the Swedish Consequentialism Study
2012/01/05
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The Long Run Is Nigh: Drum, Krugman, Disemployment and Obamacare
2012/01/05
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Sins of Omission: What's Wrong With Gruber's Health Care Reform
2012/01/04
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Kahneman, Greed and Success
2012/01/03
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Correcting For Ability Bias By Measuring Ability
2012/01/02
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December 2011

"Wages Must Fall!": Matt Yglesias Edition
2011/12/31
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The Hack
2011/12/30
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Most People Are Consequentialist???
2011/12/29
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Psychiatry's Disorders
2011/12/29
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From the Handbook of the Sociology of Education
2011/12/28
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The Mind of Robin Hanson: The Inside Story
2011/12/28
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How to Fix Group Projects
2011/12/27
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From the Holocaust Museum's "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda"
2011/12/26
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Patria, Parenti, Amici
2011/12/25
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Proving You're Qualified: Charles Hayes Replies
2011/12/22
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Proving You're Qualified; or Not
2011/12/22
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Reply to Yoram
2011/12/20
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Guest Post by Yoram Bauman
2011/12/19
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Cartoon Macro
2011/12/19
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"Wages Must Fall!": What All Good Keynesians Should Say
2011/12/15
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Suicide and Sincerity
2011/12/13
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The "Virtue" of Low Academic Standards
2011/12/12
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The Julian Simon Club
2011/12/09
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Advantage, Sociology: Gender and the Return to Education
2011/12/08
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"Socialists Won Over By War"
2011/12/08
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A Cursory Rejection of Anti-Natalism
2011/12/07
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Voter Irrationality in Animal Farm
2011/12/06
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My Fourth Statement
2011/12/05
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Seth Roberts on Education and Evaluation
2011/12/02
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Hail IJ: Bone Marrow Sales Are Now Legal
2011/12/01
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Tabarrok's Roadmap Out of the Slight Stagnation
2011/12/01
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November 2011

Sociologists on Signaling
2011/11/30
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Two Mock Interviews
2011/11/29
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The Magic of Education
2011/11/28
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Bias Against Speculation?
2011/11/27
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Dostoyevsky on Gratitude
2011/11/26
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A Puzzle for Human Capital Extremists
2011/11/23
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Final Points on ZMP
2011/11/22
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Your Thoughts on the Eurasian Union
2011/11/21
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Blame Everyone
2011/11/21
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How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story
2011/11/18
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Increase the Demand for Counter-Intuition, Move Along the Supply Curve for Fraud
2011/11/17
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The Reasons for My Hostility to ZMP
2011/11/17
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My Back-Up Plan
2011/11/16
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What A "Guide to Discontinuity/ZMP for Skeptics" Should Look Like
2011/11/15
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Reply to Arnold on PSST
2011/11/15
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PSST vs. the First Law of Wing-Walking
2011/11/14
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One Day at ICE: A Dialogue on the Philosophy of Immigration
2011/11/10
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Identity and Misanthropy
2011/11/09
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The Paltry Effect of Political Correctness
2011/11/09
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From Mobility to Misanthropy
2011/11/08
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Immigration Restrictions as Affirmative Action
2011/11/07
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In Time
2011/11/07
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Moral Theory & Voluntary Overpayment of Taxes
2011/11/04
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The Signal of Protest
2011/11/03
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I Am Not Alone: Kauffman Econ Bloggers on Educational Signaling
2011/11/02
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Poverty, Conscientiousness, and Broken Families
2011/11/01
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October 2011

The Missed Opportunity of the Payroll Tax Cut
2011/10/31
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The Brother's Keeper Bill
2011/10/28
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Nash Equilibrium in Higher Education
2011/10/27
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Education: Economic vs. Academic Perspectives
2011/10/26
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Bok's Economics of Education
2011/10/25
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Another Education Bet?
2011/10/25
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Higher Education Bubble?: Getting to Bet
2011/10/24
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Stably Wasteful: Why New Tech Won't Gut Higher Education
2011/10/24
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David on 2nd-Best Immigration Policy
2011/10/22
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Paying to Immigrate: Admission Fees vs. Surtaxes
2011/10/21
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How Kahneman Underestimates Luck
2011/10/20
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Quiggin the Pacifist?
2011/10/19
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The Toothpick Problem
2011/10/19
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Tell Me the Growth Rate
2011/10/18
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Rojas' Grad Skool Rulz
2011/10/17
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The Profound Sumner
2011/10/17
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The Rotten Spouse Theorem
2011/10/17
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Teachers and Income: What Did the Kindergarten Study Really Find?
2011/10/14
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Progress, Academics, Streetlights, and Keys
2011/10/12
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When They Take Over, We'll Be Them
2011/10/12
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Financial Dysfunction: Who Shares the Blame?
2011/10/11
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Misvocational Education
2011/10/07
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Did IQ Research Cause U.S. Immigration Restriction?
2011/10/06
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Goolsbee, Friedman, and 1980
2011/10/05
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Grading the Four Faces of Progressive Education
2011/10/03
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September 2011

Single Motherhood and Poverty: A Few More Replies
2011/09/30
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When to Wash Your Hands
2011/09/30
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Marsh vs. A Simple, Effective Way to Avoid Poverty
2011/09/29
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You Should Be Nodding Your Head
2011/09/29
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Three Quotes from the Kindergarten Paper
2011/09/28
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Jackals in Retirement
2011/09/28
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Class Dismissed and Signaling
2011/09/27
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Unz on Immigration: A Bizarrely Mixed Bag
2011/09/27
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How Lazy Is the Professoriat?
2011/09/26
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Moneyball: "Your gut makes mistakes and makes them all the time."
2011/09/24
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Openness in the Gilded Age
2011/09/23
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Supplemental Pessimism
2011/09/23
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Ethnic Diversity and the Size of Government: A Belated Reply to Sanandaji
2011/09/21
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About What Am I Optimistic and Pessimistic?
2011/09/21
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Corn, God, and Smith
2011/09/20
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Why the Confident Don't Bet
2011/09/20
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The Bizarro Blitzer Interview
2011/09/19
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Reflections on Rod Long's "Libertarian Three-Step Program"
2011/09/18
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Two Questions for People Who Respect the Law
2011/09/16
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How Open Is the U.S. Border?
2011/09/15
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Universal Social Programs vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis
2011/09/15
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The Irony of the Irony of The Onion
2011/09/14
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The Political Externalities of Immigration: Two Graphs to Ponder
2011/09/13
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Immigration vs. the Self-Interested Voter Hypothesis
2011/09/10
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Question for Fans of Universal College Attendance
2011/09/09
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Wages, Welfare, and Elderly Immigration
2011/09/08
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The Prevalence of the Populist Critique of Working Women
2011/09/07
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Reflections on The Name of the Game
2011/09/06
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Live and Let Live
2011/09/05
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Tolerance and the Libertarian Penumbra
2011/09/04
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Medical Skepticism: Children's Classics Edition
2011/09/03
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Keynesianism vs. Pump Priming
2011/09/01
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August 2011

Krugman, Landsburg, Pangloss, and Fixed Costs
2011/08/31
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The Soul of a Collectivist: Children's Classics Edition
2011/08/31
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The Size of Monetary Stimulus vs. the Length of Monetary Stimulus
2011/08/30
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Aphorism of the Day
2011/08/29
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The Picoeconomics of Education
2011/08/27
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Are Twin Studies "Pretty Much Useless"?
2011/08/26
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Immigration and Crime: Tell Me What You See
2011/08/24
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The Value of the Right of Legal Entry Into the U.S.
2011/08/24
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Health Insurance, Fairness Norms, and Unemployment
2011/08/23
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A Tale of "Voluntary Departure" from the Comments
2011/08/22
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The Return of the Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
2011/08/22
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The Removal/Return Distinction
2011/08/22
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Deportations Statistics
2011/08/21
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The Efficient, Egalitarian, Libertarian, Utilitarian Way to Double World GDP
2011/08/20
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Of Vigilantes and Warriors
2011/08/19
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Republicans and Technocrats
2011/08/19
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My Worst Parenting Mistake on Freakonomics
2011/08/19
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What Economic Theory Doesn't Say About Family Size
2011/08/19
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Supply, Demand, and the Rise of the Man-Child
2011/08/17
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Hard-Wired Envy
2011/08/16
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A Review of My Review
2011/08/16
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Freedom for Happiness
2011/08/15
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10:1
2011/08/15
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The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
2011/08/14
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The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
2011/08/12
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Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
2011/08/12
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The Theory of Time and Frittering
2011/08/11
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Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
2011/08/10
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Come One, Come All: The Mystery of Business Tolerance
2011/08/09
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Deception, Detection, and Democracy at GenCon
2011/08/08
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Keynesianism as a ZMP Story
2011/08/02
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How Wage Rigidity is Special
2011/08/02
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July 2011

The Barber (Not) Next Door
2011/07/29
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Bridging the Conservative-Libertarian Impasse
2011/07/22
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Question for Conservatives
2011/07/22
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Another Thought on Martorell and Clark
2011/07/21
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Role-Playing Games: Behind Their Time
2011/07/20
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Martorell and Clark's "The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma"
2011/07/19
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Breed Like Beckhams
2011/07/17
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The Wisdom of Steve Miller
2011/07/16
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Against "Defensive War"
2011/07/15
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Caplan-Somin "Liberty and Foreign Policy" Debate Page
2011/07/15
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Fight, Flight, Submission: War and Rhetorical Asymmetry
2011/07/14
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Demeanor and Brutality
2011/07/14
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Historical Counter-Factuals and Political Philosophy
2011/07/13
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Pacifism Redux
2011/07/13
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Words of Wisdom on Signaling
2011/07/12
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Job Satisfaction and Biblical Literalism
2011/07/10
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Job Satisfaction, Education, and the Hedonic Treadmill
2011/07/09
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Judge the Religious Turing Test
2011/07/08
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Religious Turing Test Update
2011/07/07
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Posner's Great Mystery
2011/07/07
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A Decade of Mexican Progress
2011/07/07
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Diamonds in the Rough
2011/07/06
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Lessons from the Yellowjacket War
2011/07/06
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A.B.A.: Always Be Advising
2011/07/05
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Konner on Child Labor and Vain Dreams
2011/07/02
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June 2011

Perfectionist Parents: Perfect Yourself
2011/06/30
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Tell Me the Value of a Fake Harvard Diploma
2011/06/30
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Four Unrelated Points on Education
2011/06/29
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Ability Bias vs. Signaling Again
2011/06/28
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Me and the Return to Education Literature
2011/06/27
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Caplan-Somin Debate 7/13: "What Liberty Implies for Foreign Policy"
2011/06/26
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Is "Mimic the Elite" A Good Rule of Thumb?
2011/06/26
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How to Make Me Lose an Ideological Turing Test
2011/06/26
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Best Ezra Klein Post Ever
2011/06/24
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The Ideological Turing Test: Religious Edition
2011/06/23
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Jose the Meritorious
2011/06/23
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Vargas and Understatement
2011/06/23
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Prison Rape: Becker-Acton Model Confirmed
2011/06/23
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Define Courage: The Jose Antonio Vargas Story
2011/06/23
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Two Tries at the Ideological Turing Test
2011/06/23
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Underestimating Overqualification
2011/06/22
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Tacitus, Peace, and Desolation
2011/06/21
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"Likes" as Tipping
2011/06/21
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The Ideological Turing Test
2011/06/20
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Genetic Determinism vs. Parental Irrelevantism
2011/06/19
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Running Scared
2011/06/17
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Networks and Growth
2011/06/13
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Caplan vs. Chua Debate in the Guardian
2011/06/11
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Wolfers on Kids and Income
2011/06/10
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Escape to Mongolia
2011/06/09
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The Fourth Sector
2011/06/08
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Kids Are Normal Goods for Both Genders
2011/06/08
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Cowardly Positions
2011/06/05
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Population and Chess
2011/06/04
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Immigration and the Welfare State
2011/06/03
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Crime Statistics and The Village
2011/06/03
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Medicare Rules: Bring 'Em On
2011/06/02
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Medicare, Rationing, Food Stamps, and Cigarettes
2011/06/02
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The Junker Problem
2011/06/01
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Fun Facts of Gilded Age Migration
2011/06/01
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If I Could Ask Amy Chua One Question
2011/06/01
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May 2011

The Golden Age of Immigration
2011/05/31
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MalAdaptive: The Political Economy of RCTs
2011/05/30
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Questions for Minimum Wage Supporters
2011/05/29
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How Much Good Can One Intelligent, Wise, Brave Leader Do?
2011/05/28
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Murray and Marriage
2011/05/26
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Greg Clark at the Movies
2011/05/24
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Yes Mom
2011/05/23
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Robots of the Future: A Poor Argument for Socialism
2011/05/22
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Consumption-Biased Technological Change
2011/05/19
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What the Future Holds: A Hanson-English Translation
2011/05/19
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Replies to Critics on Cato Unbound
2011/05/18
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Reflections on Gifted Programs
2011/05/16
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How Could the Draft Not Be Slavery?
2011/05/15
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Two Points on Kids and Happiness
2011/05/13
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Hanson on Regulatory Bias
2011/05/13
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Why Libertarians Should Not Fear Good Things
2011/05/13
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Appearances
2011/05/12
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Sanandaji on the Political Externalities of Immigration
2011/05/12
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The Morality of Fractional Reserve Banking
2011/05/12
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Posner and Becker on 10 Billion People
2011/05/11
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The Extra Burden of Childless Elders
2011/05/10
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The Fed: A Cost-Benefit Reckoning
2011/05/09
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One More Reason to Thank Your Mom
2011/05/08
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Predict the More Predictive Test
2011/05/07
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What Is IQ - and Why Does It Matter?
2011/05/06
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SRtHMK Reactions
2011/05/05
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Liberty, Population, and Cognitive Dissonance
2011/05/02
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Open Borders and The Walking Dead
2011/05/02
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Keynes and Central Planning
2011/05/01
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Just Try It; or, Nudge for Kids
2011/05/01
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April 2011

Ibsen Against the Wisdom of Crowds
2011/04/28
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Of Kids and Kardashians
2011/04/27
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Cowen Contra Pacifism
2011/04/26
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Pacifism Defended
2011/04/25
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Rights: A License to Kill?
2011/04/23
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Bleg: The Present Discounted Value of a Newborn Taxpayer
2011/04/22
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WSJ Reviews SRtHMK
2011/04/21
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Price Floors on Trial
2011/04/21
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Applied Ignorance
2011/04/21
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The GMU Difference
2011/04/21
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TANSTAAFL vs. Futurism
2011/04/20
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Home Prices During the Great Depression
2011/04/19
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Wittman-Caplan Debate Video
2011/04/18
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Using Loopholes
2011/04/18
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Nature, Nurture, and Me in the NYT
2011/04/17
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How Pacifist Was the Last Anti-War Movement?
2011/04/17
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Live Chat Highlight: A 4-Minute Reply to Will
2011/04/15
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Household Production Bleg
2011/04/15
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WSJ Live Chat: SRtHMK Edition
2011/04/15
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Carroll, Wilkinson, and Four Demand Curves
2011/04/14
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Epistocracy and the Anti-Authority Tenet
2011/04/14
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Jason Brennan's The Ethics of Voting
2011/04/13
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Posner on Means-Testing
2011/04/12
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How Twin Research Changed My Life
2011/04/11
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School Nurses and Econ 101
2011/04/11
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Great Out the Gate?
2011/04/11
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Is Capitalism Pro-Kid?
2011/04/09
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40 Things I Learned in My First 40 Years
2011/04/08
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Michael Huemer Profile
2011/04/07
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Tiebout Question from My Graduate Public Choice Midterm
2011/04/07
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Why Not Health Care Austerity?
2011/04/06
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Genetics, Politics, Culture, and the Future
2011/04/06
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Future of Political Philosophy Bleg
2011/04/05
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Hypocrisy and Child Labor
2011/04/05
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Would You Give Up Your Health Insurance?
2011/04/05
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Desert Defended
2011/04/03
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March 2011

An Urgent Defense of Optimism
2011/03/31
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Heritabilities Are Meaningful and Important
2011/03/30
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Moral Risk-Aversion and the Deserving Poor
2011/03/29
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Rojas on Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
2011/03/29
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Cowen on Moral Intuitionism
2011/03/27
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Hanson's Pragmatic Pacifism
2011/03/26
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In Search of the Deserving Poor
2011/03/25
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Absurdist Passages of the Year
2011/03/24
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Will I Lose My TARP Bet?
2011/03/23
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The Love Potion of Socialized Medicine
2011/03/23
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A Quick Case for Charter Cities: Memo to the Gates Foundation
2011/03/22
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Three Thoughts on Italy
2011/03/21
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Callous Reflections
2011/03/10
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Maybe Liberaltarianism Has a Prayer After All
2011/03/09
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"Callous Libertarians": Missing, or Just Unfairly Maligned?
2011/03/09
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The Evolution of the Horse Face
2011/03/08
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Finally, An Intellectually Serious Case Against Immigration
2011/03/07
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Kids and Happiness: The Sweet and Sour Spot
2011/03/07
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The Depths of FDR's Anti-Semitism
2011/03/06
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The Case Against News
2011/03/05
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How Overvalued is Italy?
2011/03/05
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The Decline of Economic Theory
2011/03/04
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The Biggest Idea in Development that No One Really Tried
2011/03/03
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The Future of Egypt: Time to Go On the Record
2011/03/02
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Systematically Biased Beliefs About Political Influence: A Quick Survey of the Literature
2011/03/02
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Systematically Biased Beliefs About Political Influence: The Working Paper
2011/03/01
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February 2011

Reflections on World on Fire
2011/02/28
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Who Understands the Causes of Poverty?
2011/02/27
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How More Immigration Can Save California
2011/02/24
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Agnostics for Pacifism
2011/02/23
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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids and the Libertarian Penumbra
2011/02/22
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The Libertarian Penumbra
2011/02/21
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Kindle Pre-Order Now Available for Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
2011/02/21
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Dude, Where's My Theory of Everything?
2011/02/21
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Why Have Libertarian Students' Social Skills Increased So Much?
2011/02/19
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www.bcaplan.com 2.0
2011/02/18
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The Dimensionality, Evolution, and Influence of Punditry
2011/02/17
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Book Marketing Bleg
2011/02/16
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Will Gay Marriage Lead to the Privatization of Marriage?
2011/02/16
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But All the Other Kids Are Calling It "The Great Stagnation"
2011/02/16
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Boudreaux to NYT on Brooks on Cowen on The Great Stagnation
2011/02/15
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Why Do So Many GMU Economists Blog?
2011/02/15
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Commie Cargo Cult
2011/02/14
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Mao's Great Famine and Depraved Indifference
2011/02/12
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Weather and Turn-Out
2011/02/11
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The Great Pacification
2011/02/11
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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids Website
2011/02/10
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Anti-Foreign Bias versus Charter Cities
2011/02/10
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Jewish versus Chinese Parenting
2011/02/10
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Gelman on Me, Chua, and Cowen
2011/02/09
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A Graduation Rate Experiment
2011/02/08
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Beaulier-Caplan Links
2011/02/08
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The Grateful Tiger Daughter
2011/02/07
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Existence, Enhancement, CPI Bias, and Progress
2011/02/07
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Why Are Free Market Economists Skeptical About Stagnation?
2011/02/06
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Steve Miller on Stagnation
2011/02/05
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Good Ol' Day Time Machine
2011/02/05
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CPI Bias Deja Vu
2011/02/04
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Dead Ends and Double Standards
2011/02/03
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Me and the Students for Liberty: Immigration Webinar 2/9, Conference 2/18-2/20
2011/02/03
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The Tiger Mother versus Cost-Benefit Analysis
2011/02/02
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Communism, Revolution, and Optimism
2011/02/01
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