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Bryan Caplan
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Bryan Caplan
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GMU econ prof, NYT bestseller, father of 4, author of Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, Case Against Education, Open Borders, & BBB
- Arguably the biggest change in higher ed in my lifetime: IQs of humanities profs have crashed. Back in the 80s, even English professors, for all their flaws, were brilliant. I saw it with my own eyes.
- Why DON'T dockworkers just agree to full automation in exchange for a massive buyout package?
- Dear Intellectuals: If you ever decide you've been deeply wrong for years, don't instantly re-brand yourself as a wise spokesman for your new view. Instead, publicly admit that your judgment clearly isn't very good, and stop pontificating for a few years. Thanks, Bryan
- A modest proposal: To be eligible for the presidency, you should have 5s on all of the following: AP Microeconomics AP Macroeconomics AP Statistics AP US History AP European History AP World History
- When I was in high school, I dreamed of a world where people wanted to spend all day arguing about philosophy, politics, and economics. Now we're here, and I was wrong. Wrong!
- "That's not real socialism" is a perfectly reasonable claim. For example, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway aren't real socialism. That's why they're not disasters.
- The classic mistake of the old: Thinking there are no new ideas. The classic mistake of the young: Thinking your ideas are new.
