Sitemap - 2006 - Bet On It

Should Feminists Favor the Abolition of Dowries?

Krugman Overcomes Pessimistic Bias

Anti-Foreign Car Guys to Japan: Thanks!

Testing the Freedom to Choose

Real Caricature

At Least They Beat Christmas Carols

Teaching Bias

Mmm... Immigration Doughnuts

Another Puzzle from the Tower Bankruptcy Sale

Robin Hanson's Intelligence Continues to Amaze Me

I Wish I Wrote That

How Egalitarianism Undermines the Study of Voter Competence

A True Story of Efficient Regulation

Jane Shrugged

Jefferson on the Indians

New World Apocalypse

Myth of the Rational Voter Update

The Ratios

"Jewish Media" Proves Extremely Fair

A Kuranian Take on the Religious Gender Gap

Make Money Fast (no, really!)

Podcasting: A New Experience

The Culture of Growth

The Far-Seeing Arnold

Economists: The World's Got a Problem With Us

The Anti-Hack

What I Learned at the Tower Records Going Out of Business Sale

Can 600 Economists Be Wrong About the Minimum Wage?

The Social Psychology of Gender Bias

Milton Friedman: The Man Who Laughs

Difference in Deference

Why Oh Why Can't the Media Distinguish "Free-Market" and "Relatively Free Market"?

Does Happiness Research Raise Happiness?

Are Husbands Really Like Potatoes?

Shylock Was Robbed

Ezra and Elasticity

The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving

The Envy of the World

Do Experts Know More? A Childish Counter-Example

Polygamy: Facts Not Fear

Becker on Polygamy

Save Your Breath

Overblown: Pessimistic Bias Foiled Again

Cato Unbound Update

Bernanke to Friedman

Hail the Victorious Dead

Suburban Happiness

Electoral Deconcentration

Elitism: The Lesser Poison

Why Do Sales Taxes Exist?

The Mirage of Libertarian Populism

Orwell and War Socialism

Will the Real Wise Advice Please Stand Up?

Analytical Egalitarianism and Truth-Seeking: Strain the Gnat, Swallow the Camel

What's Wrong With DeLong?

Immigration: Has the Public Been Ignored?

Doubt the Vote

Marginal Revolution: Small Steps Toward an Imperceptibly Better World

The Mankiw Column Fortune Didn't Want You to Read

Dexter: Beyond Good Intentions

What Austrian Brain Drain?

Who's On Your Shoulder?

Bastiat in Fairfax?

Samuelson: Blame the People

More on Fundamentalist Divorce

Essay Contests: Worth the Risk

See Saw III... If You've Got Nothing Better to Do

Found: A False Stereotype About Fundamentalists

The Draft: Who Pays the Price?

Dochia On Analytical Egalitarianism

Can You Save Egalitarianism By Making It "Analytical"?

Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism"

An Outside Perspective on GMU

Tyler: A Plague on Both Your Houses

When Ayn Rand Villains Ruled the Earth

Rothbard on Szasz

Memetic Suicide

Survey Pre-Test: Who in Government Has Power Over What?

California Dreaming

New Phelps Phan

Systematically Biased Beliefs About the Causes of High Health Care Costs

Reduction to Banality

Surveying on the Cheap: Role-Playing an Average American

Judge This Book By Its Cover

What Do You Want to Be Free to Choose?

Online Gambling Getting Riskier

Tower Records Going Out of Business... For Real

Columbus: The Far Left is Dead Right

Has Bentall Explained Madness?

What's Wrong With Fraternalism?

BMI: Lessons from D&D

The Lipinsky Memoir

The Fundamentalist Stereotype: A Vindication

A Quote that Should Have Been in My Book

The Virtual Handshake

Pessimistic Bias: Economists Suffer Too

Free Education Valued at Cost

Policy Beliefs and Policy Preferences: The Case of Guns

Policing Economic Illiteracy

The Euphoria-Disillusion Cycle

The Birth Order Illusion

My Latest Paper on Austrian Economics - and Why I Keep Writing Them

Think Before You Sign

A Black Gamer Speaks

Peak Load Pricing at the Movies

They Called Me Mad: "The Economics of Szasz" Gets Published

Belief in Communism

GMU Economists for Tolstoy

I Bargained with a Dentist

Classic Catallarchy

Demographics of the Oligarchs

Silent Signals

Unstrategic Alliances

Spotted in a Fairfax Parking Lot

The Other Reason Big Business Supports Federal Regulation

The Joy of the Switch

The Marginal Myth

An Evolutionary Model of Depression

Freeze - Statistics Police!

Beyond Irrational: The Hinckley Effect

When Hell Froze Over

Hair Length and the Demand for Haircuts, II

The Tick Petition

A Taste of Economic Ridicule

Growing into Freedom

Hair Length and the Demand for Haircuts

A Fool and His Money

The Libertarian Case for Divided Government

Homage to Catalonia, II

Yanquico

Homage to Catalonia

Mueller on Iraq

Capitalism, Democracy, and Polygamy

Sampling Bias on a Plane

The Experience Machine

Durable Experience

Au Contraire

The Quotable Kling

My Student Gets a Letter in the Washington Post

Caught In My Own Trap?

What, Me Worry? Part II

How Much Influence Do Professors Have?

Doing Good While Doing Well: Breaking Norms at GenCon

What, Me Worry?

Theory of the Hooligan Firm

Miron's Conundrum: Why Libertarians Should Think the Education Market Has Failed

The Power of Personality: What Happens When You Give a Homeless Man $100k?

Strictly Preferred to the AEA Meetings

Paying for Parking

Trade Deficit? What Trade Deficit?

If You Can't Wait to Buy My Book...

The Joy of Oblivion

When Is Entry "Easy"?

True Love and the International Marriage Market

The Los Angeles Liquor Puzzle

From Comic-Con to Econ

My Student's Real Economist Letter

Welcome Guest Blogger Eric Crampton

Intelligence and Economic Beliefs

My Advice to Tyler on the Econ Ph.D.: Lighten Up

All Things Caplan

Socialist Hate Speech of Antiquity

My Fake Economist Article

A Nice Statement of My Position on IP

What Does Your Ideology Say About You?

Self-Control and Civilization

What We Owe Immigrants

The Gender Gap of Economics: Knowledge vs. Interest

The Lamentable Teddy Roosevelt

Political Irrationality and the Brain

The Edukators

Is Bush Stupid?

A Few Good Laughs About Happiness

Critique My First Serious Survey

Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling

An Economist's Guide to Happier Parenting

New Illustration of the Folly of the Minimum Wage

Some of My Best Friends Aren't Liberal

Expect to Live Longer than Your Life Expectancy

Ten Ideas Worth Thinking About

Intellectual Gladiators

What Responds to Interest Rates?

Back to the Macro Text

Fixed Costs: The Moderate Case for Extremism

Blogging Billiards: A Fiscal Policy Trick Shot?

Russ Roberts Gets Szaszian

Competitive Manipulation

IQ, Achievement Motivation, and Culture

The Comedy of Monopoly

Is Civilization the Product of Global Warming?

Woof!

Question for Arnold

Opting Out: Do Efficiency and Liberty Really Conflict?

Are Immigrants "Ordinary People"?

Mankiw's Got Class

Two Educational Heresies: Ability Bias vs. Signaling

Mankiw on Fiscal vs. Monetary Policy

Boudreaux Class Autobio

Are You Big Enough to Tolerate Polygamy?

My Future Calhounian Class Autobio

Bloggers' Class Autobios

Skepticism About Junk

Doesn't Academia Already Have De Facto Free Immigration?

Not Junk? A Question for Arnold

Naked Guy, RIP

Strong Mind, Strong Body: IQ and Health

Class Autobio of Mark Thoma

One-Sentence Class Autobio of Tyler Cowen

Another Reason I Will Never Retire

My Short Class Autobiography

My Future Class History

Proof that the True Rationale of Social Security is Paternalism

Outsource Your Future

How Does Winning the Lottery Affect Ideology?

Polygamy: Economics vs. History

I Can Drunk Just as Well Think!

United 93 vs. Sleeper Cell

Cruise Control

Immigration: Seeing is Understanding

GMU Gratitude

Move Over, Milgram

The Mystery of Classism

Caplan, Bryan. 2007. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press.

Eschew Sesquipedalian Obsfucation

What's Wrong With the SEC?

"Virtually Bone from the Neck Up"

Looking for an Honest Job

My Earliest Encounter with Economic Absurdity

The Future of Economics Will Hopefully Be Sleeping Through the Night Soon

Back to Normal

Differential Anti-Market Bias

Is the Fundamental Attribution Error Fundamental or Even An Error?

Gas: What's the Big Deal?

Public Choice Outreach

Prof. Steve Miller

May Day Mourning

Waiting for Atlas

"Summers!" "Superintendant Chalmers!"

A Deserved Correction?

Shocked by the Gender Gap

The Promise: See You Opening Day?

Defending Desert

Modeling the Man Date

Can Psychology Save the Death Penalty?

Builders' Rights?

Politics Gets Ugly

Communist Economic Policy: Stalinism or the Red Army?

Trains versus Tulips

Dear Prudence

Take a Guess

Economic Literacy Via Philosophy?

The Gender Gap of Economics

AIDS in Africa: Too Bad to Be True

Morality, Prudence, Desire: A Lexicographic Ordering We Can Live With

The Common Sense of Scapegoating

Should I Take to Drink?

The Elasticity of Applications with Respect to Athletic Victories

The Economics of Coming Out of the Closet

Are Low-Skilled Americans the Master Race?

With Critics of Immigration Like This, Who Needs Advocates?

Putin's Potemkin Dissertation

Half Million Rally Against Anti-Foreign Bias

Deadweight Loss for Toddlers

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ethics, But Were Afraid to Ask

The Misconception of the Twentieth Century

Framing Anti-Foreign Bias

Notably Unnotable: Should Wikipedia Delete Me?

Has Harris Done It Again?

The Verdict on V for Vendetta

Making a Virtue Out of Compulsion

More Cool Work By Hainmueller and Hiscox

The Socialist Calculation Debate: Me Against the World

Parents Say the Darndest Things

Friedman Extends Hotelling

Credible Incentives for Your Teenage Bum

Don't Let Tyrone Off So Easily

Goods, Bads, Marginal Utility, and Happiness Research

What Summers Missed: Women, Personality, and the Sciences

Econlog and the Academy

Spencer Lives - and He Teaches at Harvard

Curious Brad

Measuring Skill

Obscure Demand Function Factoid

Watch the Horizon

Happiness Research: Get Used to It

Eternal Temptation

Why Experiments are Misleading

Red-Handed Ratchet Effect

Lenin and Goebbels: Can You Tell Them Apart?

Less Stumped

From the Quaint to the Bizarre: Jeff Friedman on Hayek

You're Not Fooling Anyone: The Futility of Libertarian Euphemisms

Stumped

Economic Theory for the Socially Perplexed

A Story that Warms My Heart

Honest Measurement

Lighten Up on Happiness, Arnold!

Lemons for Valentine's Day

Drain Our Brains: It's the Law!

Creative Destruction of the Telegram

Credentialism versus Signaling

What Does Education Signal? Answering Arnold's Challenge

Name My Book, Part II: Vote on the Finalists

An Implausible Randian Correlation Checks Out

Individual Creativity

Mixed Signals: Why Becker, Cowen, and Kling Should Reconsider the Signaling Model of Education

Insurance versus Charity

Punk Songs for Classical Liberals

Happy 101st Birthday, Ayn Rand

Fool Me Thrice, and I'll Trust You

Less Liberty Than Meets the Eye

A License to Sing?

You're All Winners

At First Glance: Bias in the Media

Elite Folly and Selection Bias

Name This Book!

Cinematic Proof

The Joy of Econ

Mozart: An Ultimate Resource

Where Dysgenics Goes Wrong: Comparative Advantage Strikes Again

How to Get in the Financial Times

Stack the Deck: Another Reason to Have More Kids

Gnomonomics

Where Eugenics Goes Wrong: The Implications of Comparative Advantage

Funding Jihad

As I Was Saying

How Islam Spread: Veeery Slooowly

Mind Wide Open

Are Neighborhood Effects Really Genetic Effects?

Mandated Benefits and Wage Rigidity: The Effects of the "Fair Share Health Care Fund Act"

A Verdict on Mindless Economics

Confession of a Broken Planner

The Censors of Ghost Town

Union Disillusion: Journalists vs. Economists

The Upside of Asia

IQ, Algernon, and Introspection

Stories from The Onion that Deserved to Be in the AER