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A Question of War and Peace: Some Answers
How Would We Really Treat Mutants?
A Question of Educational Discrimination: Some Answers
"Wholesale Bankruptcies" in Higher Education: I'll Bet Against It
A Question of Educational Discrimination
The Case Against Education on Who You Know
The Case Against Education: The Project Evolves
Go Fight Some Real Crime: Why Doubling the Police Is Unreasonable
Absurdities of the Tiebout Model
10 More Things I Learned in My First 10 Years of Parenting
10 Things I Learned in My First 10 Years of Parenting
School, Work, and Connections Bleg
Kidphobia: Decadent, or Just Misguided?
Global Utilitarianism and Airport Security
Immigration Policy and the World Values Survey
Ignatius Reilly on Character and Education
EconLog Book Club Round-up: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book Club, Part 4
Single Parenthood: The Reason Matters
The False Advertising of the CFTC
British Democracy and the Death Penalty
Modelling the Marriage of High Virtue and Low Cunning
Joseph Schmidt and the Tragedy of Discrimination
Some Unpleasant Immigration Arithmetic
How Deep to Cut: A First-Pass Answer to Pearlstein's Challenge
What Makes People Think Like Economists About Inflation?
Correction: Total Government Spending on Higher Education
Outsourcing My Critique of Left-Libertarianism
Brennan's Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know
Higher Education: Time to Cut the Cord
Learning and Retention in Medical School
Intermediate Hypothetical Bleg
Sailer on Fundamental Moral Obligations
Social Intelligence: The Wisdom of Muawiya
Immigration, Trespassing, and Socialism
A Question for Steve Sailer's B-School Professor
Open Borders and Global IQ Bleg
Self-Correction in Markets and Politics
The Present Value of Learning, Adjusted for Forgetting
You Should Repeatedly Read Cochrane's "After the ACA"
Why Is the National Return to Education So Low?
Economic Models of Education: A Typology for Future Reference
Cuba to Open Its Border (Outwards)
A Bunch of Arguments in Favor of Regressive Tuition
Escaping Poverty: Your Friendly Advice
Firing Aversion: A Human Resources Perspective
Evil and Support for the Welfare State
U.S. Executions Per Capita Have Been Falling for 400 Years
Vipul Naik's Analysis of the Open Borders Persuasion Bleg
How Would a Georgist Single Tax Work in Monopoly?
Why Not a Free Market in Educational Loans?
Two Verdicts on Two Replies to Two Replies
Does High School Algebra Pass a Cost-Benefit Test?
The Best Kinds of Free Education
Some Men Just Want to Please the Experimenter
True by Definition: Redistribution and Economic Freedom
Utopian Experimental Socialism
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book Club, Part 3
How Stagnant Are We? The Results
Turning the Camera: The Political Externalities of the Status Quo
My WSJ Review of Flynn's Are We Getting Smarter?
National Egoism and Vronsky Syndrome
I Win My Unemployment Bet With Mike Shedlock
Tough Luck: A Followup Conversation With Bill Dickens
Autobiography of Malcolm X Book Club Update
How Stagnant Are We? A Time Diary Self-Experiment
Is the Georgist Single Tax Pigovian?
Gilens vs. the Political Externalities of Immigration
Affluence, Erudition, and Influence
Somin on Libertarians and Jim Crow
Why Is Democracy Tolerable? Evidence from Affluence and Influence
Libertarians and Jim Crow Bleg
Vipul Naik and the Priority of Open Borders
Do Indians Rightfully Own America?
Long-Run Unemployment at Low Inflation: Dourado vs. Akerlof-Dickens-Perry
Will False Belief in the SIVH Destroy Romney's Candidacy?
Rafat Channels Tullock, Kuran, and Sunstein
The Debiasing Dollar: How to Get Markets in Everything
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book Club, Part 2
Sumner Channels Yglesias Against Jones
How Does Belief in the Signaling Model Affect Educational Attainment?
Social Desirability Bias vs. Intelligence Research
Social Desirability Bias vs. Intelligence Research
Thomas Szasz: A Life Well-Lived
Welcome Guest Blogger Garett Jones
Dan Klein on the Econ Profession
Wanted: Counterexamples to Klein's "Forsaken Liberty Syndrome"
The Temptation of Discrimination
Marginal Revolution University
The Public Goods Model vs. Social Desirability Bias: A Case of Observational Equivalence
The Public Goods Model vs. Social Desirability Bias: A Case of Observational Equivalence
Indian Fertility: A Bet With John Nye
Reply to Bill Dickens on Poverty: Part 1
Optimizing Your Family Size in Real Time
Bill Dickens Responds on Poverty
Discrimination, Liberty, and the Sorites Paradox
Eubulides, Wilkinson, and Discrimination
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book Club, Part 1
Low Transfer of Learning: The Glass Is Half Full
The Subtle Value-Added of Frederic Bastiat
Who To Blame: Generalizing Brennan
Making Populism Serious: The Case of Social Security
Who Loves Bastiat and Who Loves Him Not
Brink, Me, and Human Capitalism
Bastiat's "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen": Who Says "Meh"?
Are Monolingual Americans Missing Out?
The Degree and Origin of Foreign Language Competence
The Numbers Speak: Foreign Language Requirements Are a Waste of Time and Money
Human Capitalism: Comments on Brink Lindsey's Draft
Status Quo Bias and Conformity Signaling
The Interaction Between Status Quo Bias and Signaling
What It Takes to Pop a Higher Education Bubble
Autobiography of Malcolm X Book Club?
Bill Dickens on Me on Poverty: A Rejoinder
IGM, Economic Consensus, and Partisan Bias
The Fallacy of Dulling the Pain of Poverty
What Did You Learn in Business School?
Poverty and Behavior: Generalizing Yglesias
Popular Resistance to Cost-Effectiveness Research: Two Stories and a Challenge
The Relevance of the Religious Hypothetical
Social Darwinism vs. the Economic Way of Thinking
Thiel, Schmidt, and Consumption-Biased Technological Change
The Contributions of William T. Dickens
Arnold on the Current State of Computers in Education
What Would Efficient Sexual Harassment Law Look Like?
Online Education: The Rationale for the Revolutionary Definition
A Controversial Issue Resolved With Econometrics
Ask a Martian Sociologist: What Does American Education Say About the American Labor Market?
Tipping, Status, and Signaling
The Future of Online Education: Three Competing Perspectives
Be Careful What You Wish For - You May Already Have It
Jersey Shore, Emily Whitehurst, and Merit
Vietnam's 300 Days of Open Borders: Operation Passage to Freedom
What John Roberts and Ben Bernanke Really Have in Common
The GSS and the Political Externalities of Immigration: A Guest Post by Sam Wilson
The Curious Ethos of the Academic/Appointee
Education and Option Value: A Conversation With Virgil Storr
Did the IGM Reject Laffer Optimism or Old-School Keynesianism?
What Arrow Said About Education in 1973
Ridley, Simon, Population, and Innovation
My WSJ Review of Born Together - Reared Apart
Rejoinder to Ridley on Innovation and Population
The Pageant of World History vs. Wikipedia: The Case of Mussolini
Of Honor Codes and Social Contracts
Jose Antonio Vargas Is Sadly Ineligible for Semi-Amnesty
Is Obama's Semi-Amnesty for Real?
Six Theses on Extremely Unjust Laws I Dare You to Dispute
Burrus and Merit: Final Thoughts
Does Portugal Show the Signaling Model Is Wrong?
A Puzzle for Human Capital Extremists Revisited
Trevor Burrus, I Want to Convert You to Meritocracy
The Meritocracy of Liberty: Why Trevor Burrus Should Become a Meritocrat
Gerald Prante on Means-Testing
Means-Testing and Political Economy
If You Don't Like It: Reply to Some Comments
Outside Offers, Matching, and Discrimination
The Return to SAT Preparation Classes
Firing Aversion: A Cross-Cultural Study
Vocational Education: Do Students Suffer in the Long-Run?
Tyler Momentarily Embraces Signaling
1>0, and Other Thoughts on Apprenticeships
A Signaling Theory of Suboptimal Telecommuting
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
Caplan v. Murphy on Paul: Getting to Bet
A Neglected Private Benefit of Education
Market Failure: The Case of Organic Food
Would a World Plebiscite Lead to Open Borders?
The Road to Freedom: Bumps and All
Ron Paul vs. the Median Voter Model
Durability vs. Stability: The Kim Dynasty and the Stationary Bandit Model
The Kim Dynasty vs. the Stationary Bandit Model
Why Applicants Don't Volunteer Their Test Scores
Breast Milk, Twins, and Outcomes: A Difference-in-Differences Approach
Wax's Behavioral Economics of the Family
Why Don't Applicants Volunteer Their Test Scores?
Eugenics, Malthusianism, and Trepidation
Schooling, Income, and Reverse Causation
Online Education: The Best-Case Scenario
Bet for Brooks: No Education Tsunami Is Coming
Immigration, Skill, Efficiency, and Quotas: A Conflict of Economic Intuitions
Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism and Its Critics: Preliminary Mediation
Highlights from "Does Technology Drive the Growth of Government?"
"Does Technology Drive the Growth of Government?" Bleg
Is Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism Evil?
Calvin Coolidge Channels Lysander Spooner
Why Are Donations to Government So Small?
Ideas Have Consequences, Valeria Edition
How "Ethically Risky" Is Creating a Life?
The Behavioral Effects of "Catholic" versus "Protestant" Ethics
"Catholic" versus "Protestant" Ethics
Signaling Versus Educational Innovation
Educational Counter-Signaling Bleg
Intellectual Ability and Educational Difficulty
The Intellectual Danger of Label-Avoidism
Is Rising Education a Symptom of Progress?
Are Political Labels Uniquely IQ-Draining?
The 2012 Vote That Really Matters
The Wise Pluralism of David Friedman
Do Labels and Good-versus-Evil Stories Drain IQ?
The New Yorker on the Ethics of Fertility
Weighing the Coerciveness of Marital Law
Planning for the Unpleasant Future: Private vs. Public
David Autor Signals Wit and Insight
Tyler's Telling Question About My Education Book
The Banality of Leninism vs. the Wisdom of Acton
Table of Contents for The Case Against Education
Murray's WSJ Solutions for the Formerly-Known-As-Working Class
Licensing and the Return to Education
Reciprocity and Irony: A View from My Bubble
A Libertarian Defense of Blacklisting at The Nation
Losing Ground, The Bell Curve, and Coming Apart: A Reconciliation
The Solutions Murray Should Have Proposed
Tell Me the Difference Between Jim Crow and Immigration Restrictions
Fund-Raising and the Independent Scholar
Goldin-Katz and the Education Plateau
The Myth of the Education Plateau
What Is the Female Marriage Penalty?
"The Case Against Education" Webinar Tonight
Sumner on the Mystery of Bernanke
What Is the Male Marriage Premium?
Test the Predictions - Or Check the Assumptions
Griswold on Immigration and the Welfare State
Cato Journal Immigration Symposium Round-Up
The Mystery of Bernanke Solved
Imagine Grateful Welfare Recipients
Zwolinski, the Drowning Child, and the Good Samaritan
How Legal Is Free-Range Parenting?
What If the Stranger Is a Drowning Child?
Krugman, Human Weakness, and Desert
A Search-Theoretic Critique of Georgism
The Boudreaux Plan to Save the NYT
Obamacare Shortages: Why Aren't We Going Sputnik?
The Puzzling Ethics of Emergency Care
Ozimek on the Sheepskin Effect
The Career Consequences of Failing versus Forgetting
How Deserving Are the Poor? Debate Wrap-Up
Murray, Frum, and the Hurricane Analogy
What Happens When Signaling Gets Cheaper?
Don't Judge a Scholar By His Deals
Naming the Puppy: Firing Aversion and the Labor Market
My Two Favorite Graphs From Coming Apart
"How Deserving Are the Poor?": My Opening Statement
What's So Special About Huemer's New Book?
Social Capital, Property Values, and Salam
Name Michael Huemer's New Book
Bet for Arnold: Education Is Stably Wasteful
Arnold and Education: Getting to Bet
Discontinuity and the Real World
Why Should We Restrict Immigration?
Caplan-Smith GMU Debate: "How Deserving Are the Poor?"
The College Premium vs. the Marriage Premium: A Case of Double Standards
Quiggin on the Caplan-Quiggin Bet
The Present Value of a Sheepskin
The Constitutionality of Useless Regulation
Tell Me the Difference Between My Lai and Hiroshima
Great Stagnation or Great Vacation?
Tyler's Embarrassing Question and Major Concession
An Optimist's Take on Charles Murray's Coming Apart
Planets, Life, and the Fermi Paradox
The Demented Pacifism of Irving Fisher
Return to "What Could President Paul Actually Do?"
Eureka! Economic Illiteracy as Mental Substitution
Kahneman, Mental Effort, and the Scary Parole Study
Wilkinson, Rogoff, and the Presumption in Favor of Economic Growth
How Egalitarianism Increases Inequality
Democracy: Worse Than I Thought
The Long Run Is Nigh: Drum, Krugman, Disemployment and Obamacare
Correction on the Swedish Consequentialism Study
Sins of Omission: What's Wrong With Gruber's Health Care Reform