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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 2010

The Standard History of Labor: Lemony Snicket Edition
2010/02/09
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Becker on Adverse Selection via Regulation
2010/02/08
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What Will the Supermarket Look Like After the Blizzard?
2010/02/08
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Mood and Macro
2010/02/08
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A Puzzle from the Blizzard
2010/02/06
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In Defense of Extreme Meliorism
2010/02/05
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Anti-EMH and Antitrust
2010/02/05
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Spotted at the Johnson Center
2010/02/04
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Five Responses to Eggers and O'Leary's "Five Reasons Why Libertarians Shouldn't Hate Government"
2010/02/04
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Rod Long's Non Sequitur
2010/02/03
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Sympathy for the Nobelist
2010/02/03
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Why Aren't the Italians Libertarians?
2010/02/03
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Fukuyama's Perfectly Horrifying Example
2010/02/02
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Will Obama Be a Carter or a Clinton?
2010/02/01
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Means-Testing is Awesome
2010/02/01
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January 2010

Name that Blip Redux
2010/01/31
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Name that Blip
2010/01/30
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Rand vs. Evolutionary Psychology: Part 2
2010/01/29
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Huemer Flourishes
2010/01/28
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The Ivory Tower: Do Non-Leftists Want In?
2010/01/28
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Implausible Wimps: A Reply to Hara Marano
2010/01/28
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Clemens on Haiti
2010/01/27
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The "Zero-Probability Fallacy" Fallacy
2010/01/27
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Gender Imbalances and Growth Reconsidered
2010/01/26
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Obamacare Passes By 6/30/10: Should I Bet Against It?
2010/01/25
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"Big Corporations Almost Never Lose Money"
2010/01/25
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I Loved Free-Range Kids
2010/01/24
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How I Would Have Sold Obamacare
2010/01/23
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Krugman is Good Again
2010/01/22
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Huemer on Rand at Cato
2010/01/22
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Pyramid Power
2010/01/21
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Simon vs. Ehrlich at a Funeral
2010/01/20
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Murphy's Catch-Up Contradiction
2010/01/19
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Pregnancy Substitutes and Economic Growth
2010/01/16
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Ignorance, Incentives, and Meaning
2010/01/15
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Alabama vs. the E.U.
2010/01/14
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Evil Shortage: Why the Evil Empire Fell
2010/01/14
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The Solow Model and Soviet Growth Optimism
2010/01/14
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Pro-Soviet Neocons?
2010/01/13
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Applied Economics Assumes Selfishness, and Rightly So
2010/01/13
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Rand vs. Evolutionary Psychology: Part 1
2010/01/12
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Moral Knowledge: A Question of Timing
2010/01/11
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Visualize Laissez-Faire: What Would a Libertarian Recalculation Look Like?
2010/01/10
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The Origin of the Word "Relationship"
2010/01/09
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A Modest Proposal for Wannabe Humanities Profs
2010/01/08
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Dan's Great Question about Bernanke
2010/01/07
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Dear Scott: I Wouldn't Have Thought So, But Yes
2010/01/07
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The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Nice, but Short on Ridicule
2010/01/07
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Human Sex Ratio Doesn't Run in Families
2010/01/06
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A Really Obvious Way to Bend the Curve
2010/01/06
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The Books I Wish My Colleagues Would Write
2010/01/05
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My New Year's Resolution for Robin Hanson
2010/01/04
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Baby-Selling: When Is Wrong to Sell? When Is It Right to Ban?
2010/01/02
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Sumner, the Stock Market, and Price Controls
2010/01/01
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The Naughts: The Second Least-Scary Decade of the Last 100 Years
2010/01/01
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December 2009

Question for Sumner
2009/12/31
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Easterly Contra Galbraith
2009/12/31
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An Alibertarian Case for Reproductive Laissez-Faire
2009/12/30
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Another Reason to Get an Econ Ph.D.
2009/12/29
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Why Were American Econ Textbooks So Pro-Soviet?
2009/12/29
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How Big a Spender Was Bush II?
2009/12/28
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Democratic Fundamentalism and The Baby Business; or, Debate? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Debate!
2009/12/28
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Northian Pessimism in FP2P
2009/12/27
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The Intellectual Propertarian/Environmentalist Analogy
2009/12/27
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FP2P Quip of the Day
2009/12/27
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What Just Happened?
2009/12/26
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Memory Boost
2009/12/25
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Respect Me
2009/12/25
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Some Preliminary Political Economy of the Senate Bill
2009/12/24
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Exegesis, Public Choice, and the Senate Health Care Bill
2009/12/24
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The Ahistoricity of the SIVH
2009/12/23
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The Myth of Shock Therapy
2009/12/22
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Repugnantly Corrupt Bargains
2009/12/21
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FP2P: Paul Romer Interview Highlights
2009/12/21
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Dude, Who Will Shovel My Snow?
2009/12/20
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FP2P: The Book Hayek Should Have Written
2009/12/20
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Brad Said It
2009/12/20
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Who Said It?
2009/12/19
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Correcting a Favorite Textbook Author
2009/12/19
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The Dining Room Table Responds
2009/12/19
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Rejoinder on Hayek
2009/12/19
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"No Frills" IVF in Africa
2009/12/17
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Surrogacy, Egg Donation, and the Division of Labor
2009/12/17
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Kling-Schulz: An Immediate Delight
2009/12/16
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A Manager's Perspective on Health Insurance
2009/12/16
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Cutting the Minimum Wage Really Is Good for Aggregate Demand
2009/12/16
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Life Extension and the Economy
2009/12/16
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Does the Public Get This Right?
2009/12/15
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Hail Victor Fuchs
2009/12/15
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Double-Digit Inflation Bet With Bob Murphy
2009/12/14
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Philosophy and Rational Irrationality
2009/12/14
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One Take on Strauss's Craziness
2009/12/14
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Two Takes on Hayek's Flabbiness
2009/12/13
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Billion Dollar Bribe
2009/12/12
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How Wise Is Repugnance?
2009/12/11
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What Do Philosophers Think - and What Do Philosophers Think Philosophers Think?
2009/12/10
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Macaulay on Pessimistic Bias
2009/12/09
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What is Maturity - and Who's Got It?
2009/12/09
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Higher Education: The End Is Not Nigh
2009/12/08
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Questions for a Dissertation Defense
2009/12/08
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Question for Recalculationists, Round 3
2009/12/08
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Question for Recalculationists, Round 2
2009/12/07
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Question for Recalculationists
2009/12/07
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The Point of Stitches
2009/12/06
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So Bad It's Good
2009/12/05
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The Ethics of Giving Machiavellian Advice
2009/12/04
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The Public Choice of the Ancient Hebrews
2009/12/04
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How Arthur Lupia Changed My Mind
2009/12/03
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What Does Selfishness Require of Us?
2009/12/02
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Obvious Stuff I Agree With
2009/12/01
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Questions I'm Going to Ask John Nye
2009/12/01
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November 2009

Bernanke Mea Culpa Redux
2009/11/30
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The Malevolent Invisible Hand
2009/11/30
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A Philosophical Bet
2009/11/30
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What's Really Wrong With Cryonics
2009/11/29
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When Is Uncertainty an Argument for Inaction?
2009/11/28
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How the Economy of Anarchist Spain Really Worked
2009/11/27
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Snap Judgments vs. Apathy
2009/11/26
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Robin Gets Functionalist, As Predicted
2009/11/25
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Why Do Parents Forget What's It's Like to Be a Kid?
2009/11/25
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Congressional Millionaires
2009/11/24
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Be a Koch Fellow
2009/11/24
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Why Don't More Therapists Use Exposure Therapy?
2009/11/24
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Hummel Responds
2009/11/23
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Underestimating Climategate
2009/11/23
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Hummel's Three Laws and WWII Revisionism: Part 1
2009/11/23
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From Intuitionism to Contrarianism: A Case Study
2009/11/22
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Haunted By the Hitler Hypothetical
2009/11/20
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Sumner Gives Away the Store
2009/11/19
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Since You Asked, Scott
2009/11/19
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Ask and You May Learn
2009/11/18
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My New Public Choice Class
2009/11/18
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The Effect of Children on Happiness: The Latest from the Research Frontier
2009/11/18
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What If India Had Been an Asian Tiger?
2009/11/17
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Why Academic Economists Aren't Bayesians
2009/11/16
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What Is Money Velocity?
2009/11/16
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Why Aren't Academic Economists Bayesians?
2009/11/15
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The Faces of Janus
2009/11/13
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Bequest Question
2009/11/12
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The Signaling Model of Education Standing on One Foot
2009/11/12
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Exposure Therapy: When Probabilities Fail
2009/11/11
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How Singapore's #1
2009/11/10
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The Writing on the Wall
2009/11/09
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Getting Your Storks in a Row
2009/11/09
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Hitting a Nerve in Singapore
2009/11/06
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Libertarians' Favorite Commie Quote
2009/11/05
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Dear New Yorker: I Want My Catch Phrase Back
2009/11/05
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What's Really Rotten in the City-State of Singapore?
2009/11/04
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Economists Are Irrational; Is Anyone Else?
2009/11/03
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Studies Show
2009/11/02
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October 2009

Why Doesn't Parenting Affect Fertility?
2009/10/31
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Tullock on The Unpredictability of Dictatorial Succession
2009/10/30
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Chabon's Unkindest Cut
2009/10/29
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Caplan-Hanson Debate Redux?
2009/10/28
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Additive Shocks
2009/10/28
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The Decline of the Rabbit Strategy
2009/10/27
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The Incomparable Tullock
2009/10/25
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Randian India?
2009/10/24
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A Simple Proof that "National Defense" is Not a Public Good
2009/10/24
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Selfish Reason to Have More Kids: Google Fact Edition
2009/10/23
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Remembering the Collapse of Communism
2009/10/23
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Family, Transfers, Pride, and Shame
2009/10/22
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I Just Pre-Ordered The Cartoon Introduction to Economics
2009/10/21
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Where the Pigovians Are
2009/10/21
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Seven Guidelines for Writing Worthy Works of Non-Fiction
2009/10/21
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Pessimistic Bias: Crime Edition
2009/10/20
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Bye Bye Borders?
2009/10/19
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Economic Naivete
2009/10/19
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Wolfers, Ehrenreich, Misery, and Feminism
2009/10/18
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Living With Your Parents
2009/10/17
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Update on Suicide Bombers and Life Insurance
2009/10/16
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Was Having Kids Ever a Paying Venture?
2009/10/16
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The High Points of Superfreakonomics
2009/10/15
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Confucius and Cato
2009/10/14
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Merit-Based Pay Cuts: Why Not?
2009/10/14
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Unbelievably Good News
2009/10/13
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Too Lazy to Waste? A Death Blow to the Fallacy of the Balanced Budget Multiplier
2009/10/13
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Obesity and Dominance Reconsidered
2009/10/12
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Balan's Challenge
2009/10/11
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Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
2009/10/10
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The Best of Buchanan
2009/10/09
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This Time Really Is Different
2009/10/08
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Curiosity and Humility
2009/10/07
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Naming Names
2009/10/07
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A Footnote to the Economics of Crime
2009/10/06
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Boettke-Caplan Debate on Youtube
2009/10/06
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Are Conservatives Less Utilitarian Than Liberals?
2009/10/05
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Clarification on my Punk'd Episode
2009/10/04
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Punk'd By Krugman? What Happened When My Insurer Denied My Baby Coverage
2009/10/03
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Democracy, Dictatorship, and the Variance of Growth
2009/10/02
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How Growth Happens: CostCo Edition
2009/10/01
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September 2009

Intuitive Econ Challenge
2009/09/30
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Utility Isn't Everything
2009/09/29
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Basic Economics Is Intuitive
2009/09/28
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Sumner on Why Friedman Was Too Klingian
2009/09/27
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A Guess and a Test
2009/09/25
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Government Spending on Health Care is Industrial Policy
2009/09/25
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Good News About Subsistence
2009/09/24
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10,005% Nominal GDP Growth
2009/09/23
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Stringham's A Winner... Again
2009/09/22
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Robin's Atoms
2009/09/22
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Arnold's Bizarre Monetary Econ
2009/09/22
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Aren't Faux-Agnostic Economists Just Following Tyler's Advice?
2009/09/21
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Virtual Cornucopia
2009/09/21
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Cowen, Yglesias, and Libertarians on Urbanism
2009/09/20
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Why Aren't Government Employees Worse?
2009/09/19
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The Expected Human
2009/09/17
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Posner on Personality
2009/09/16
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Private Death Panels
2009/09/16
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Gordon Reviews Create Your Own Economy
2009/09/16
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Ohanian and His Critics
2009/09/15
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What Would You Like to See on My Public Choice Syllabus?
2009/09/14
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Cochrane's Political Economy
2009/09/13
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"All Theories Are False"
2009/09/13
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The Real Problem With Monogamy: Asymmetric Information
2009/09/12
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Was Hoover's No-Wage-Cuts Pledge a Banana Subsidy?
2009/09/11
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Monogamy and Heterogeneity
2009/09/10
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Jet Lag, Night Feedings, and Fixed Costs
2009/09/09
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I've Got a Little List
2009/09/09
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Cities, Suburbs, Country: Who's Subsidizing Whom?
2009/09/08
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Is Suburban America the Product of Regulation?
2009/09/07
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Another Great Simon
2009/09/06
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Windbags and Modernity
2009/09/05
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Ideas Have Consequences: SRHMK Edition
2009/09/02
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Against Human Weakness
2009/09/02
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Where Does Monopoly Power Come From?
2009/09/01
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August 2009

Antitrust Through the Lens of Marginal Revolution
2009/08/31
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Why Do People Oppose Organ Markets?
2009/08/29
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How Long Would Peter Pan Live?
2009/08/28
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Did Armageddon Happen?
2009/08/28
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How to Stay Solvent Longer Than the Market Can Stay Irrational
2009/08/28
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Health Care: Price Controls versus Budgeting
2009/08/27
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Is Bernanke a Hu Jintao?
2009/08/27
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What Would Happen If the Median Economist Controlled Health Care Policy?
2009/08/27
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Sumner Digest
2009/08/27
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Edified
2009/08/26
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Do Normative Economists Need Explicit Moral Premises?
2009/08/26
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Incentives Matter: Prison Rape Edition
2009/08/25
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Touristic Bias: Why Americans Overrate Europe, and Europeans Underrate America
2009/08/24
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Infant Car Seats and Child Safety: What's the Marginal Benefit?
2009/08/22
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Overqualified: What's Wrong With European Labor Markets
2009/08/21
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Denmark and Sweden: Expectations versus Experience
2009/08/21
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The Law of Inflated Expectations
2009/08/12
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Denmark and Sweden: What I'm Expecting
2009/08/09
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Modernity as a Children's Paradise
2009/08/07
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Geoffrey Miller: Progressive for Intelligence
2009/08/07
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The Economics and Philosophy of the Wall
2009/08/06
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How Arnold Underestimates Reputation
2009/08/05
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When Doesn't Reputation Work Well?
2009/08/05
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Insurance, Reputation, and Caricature
2009/08/04
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Insurance, Reputation, and Kristallnacht
2009/08/03
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July 2009

The Late Great George Walsh
2009/07/31
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Sorel on Totalitarian Political Entrepreneurs
2009/07/31
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Mass Sterilization, Reconsidered
2009/07/30
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Government Health Insurance and Pseudocertainty
2009/07/29
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Krugman Blames Adverse Selection Problem on Government Regulation
2009/07/28
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Why Liberals Needn't Fear Republican-Run Welfare States
2009/07/28
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Health Insurance and Reputation
2009/07/27
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Creative Destruction: What's Next?
2009/07/25
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Four Year From Now Plans
2009/07/24
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Cruel Caring in Breaking Bad
2009/07/23
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Four Reactions to Charitable Requests, Plus One More to Charitable Demands
2009/07/22
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What I Told the Liberaltarians
2009/07/22
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Are Libertarians Especially Predictable?
2009/07/22
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Balan-Caplan Debate: Suggested Topics?
2009/07/20
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Adverse Hazard, Moral Selection, Whatever
2009/07/20
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Sumner's One-Sentence Class Autobiography
2009/07/19
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Mainstream Marketing vs. the Central Six
2009/07/19
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Geoffrey Miller Briefly Makes Me Embarassed to Be An Economist
2009/07/18
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Payroll Tax Hikes, Keynesianism, and the Recession: A Reply to Drum and Krugman
2009/07/17
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Day Break as Social Experiment
2009/07/17
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The Lens of Hypergamy: An Application
2009/07/16
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The World Needs the Accidental Theorist Back
2009/07/15
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How I'd Sell Civilization to Cavemen
2009/07/15
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Return to Panic
2009/07/14
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What the Veterinary Medicine Piece Really Said
2009/07/14
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Sumner's FAQ
2009/07/13
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America vs. Japan: Where Is It Better for Kids?
2009/07/13
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What's Wrong With Realism? What's Right With It? Part 2
2009/07/12
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Why Are the Neurotic Anti-Market?
2009/07/08
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Why Are the Agreeable Anti-Market?
2009/07/07
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Personality and Ideology: Compared to What?
2009/07/06
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Hope His Top Advisor Sort of Believes In
2009/07/06
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How Much Does Personality Affect Ideology?
2009/07/06
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Personality Profile of a Free-Marketeer: Extroverted, Disagreeable, Conscientious, Stable, and Closed
2009/07/04
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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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