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Bryan Caplan


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Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his B.S. in economics from University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. His professional work has been devoted to the philosophies of libertarianism and free-market capitalism and anarchism. (He is the author of the Anarchist Theory FAQ.) He has published in American Economic Review, Public Choice, and the Journal of Law and Economics, among others. He is a blogger at the EconLog blog along with Arnold Kling, and occasionally has been a guest blogger at Marginal Revolution with two of his colleagues at George Mason, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok. He is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute in Washington, D. ...more

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Generalizing Huemer

Mike Huemer has yet another great thought experiment:

Suppose you learned that there was a school staffed mainly by right-leaning teachers and administrators. And at this school, an oddly large number of lessons touch upon, or perhaps center on, bad things that have been done by Jews throughout history. None of the lessons are factually false – all the incidents related are things that genuinely

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“Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs.”
― Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
tags: democracy, economics, irrationality, politics, voting
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“Both bad driving and bad voting are dangerous not merely to the individual who practices them, but to innocent bystanders.”
― Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
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“The heralded social dividends of education are largely illusory: rising education’s main fruit is not broad-based prosperity, but credential inflation”
― Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
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