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Another Deleted Scene from MRV: The Benefits of Overestimating the Dangers of Inflation
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 10/ another_deleted.html(October 2, 2008 12:54 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Here's another section that didn't make it into the final draft of my book:Mutual cancellation of errors does happen on...
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Canadian Caplania
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 09/ canadian_caplan.html(September 29, 2008 10:28 AM, by Bryan Caplan) I was on CTV this morning. As usual, the media wanted to talk about a few obscure paragraphs in my...
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Political Put-Down of the Year
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 09/ political_putdo.html(September 29, 2008 10:04 AM, by Bryan Caplan) "Gov. Palin is merely less skilled in passing off inanities and claptrap as profundities." Ouch! I'm glad the poison pen...
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Where Are the Demagogues When You Need Them?
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 09/ where_are_the_d.html(September 21, 2008 05:45 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Googling "bail-out rich" basically kicks back a bunch of libertarians. Where are the left-wing demagogues denouncing the bail-outs as "welfare...
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Why Only Bush Could Bring Socialism to America
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 09/ why_only_bush_c.html(September 21, 2008 05:01 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Recent events remind me of Cowen and Sutter's 1998's article on "Why Only Nixon Could Go to China." From the...
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An Ex Ante Aneurysm
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 09/ an_ex_ante_aneu.html(September 17, 2008 09:49 AM, by Bryan Caplan) From Shenkman, Just How Stupid Are We?:The economist and liberal columnist Paul Krugman is convinced that the dawn of a...
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U.S. States and Five-Factor Personalities
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 09/ us_states_and_f.html(September 14, 2008 07:33 PM, by Arnold Kling) Razib has the story. I do want to note the correlations between Openness and the following metrics on the state...
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Will Wilkinson's Intellectual Standards
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 09/ will_wilkinsons.html(September 13, 2008 02:46 AM, by Arnold Kling) David Brooks is not up to them. Shock me, shock me....
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A Deleted Scene from MRV
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 09/ a_deleted_scene.html(September 11, 2008 02:00 PM, by Bryan Caplan) I'm currently writing replies to eight critiques of my book for a forthcoming issue of Critical Review. In Jon Elster...
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In Praise of Corny Canadian Politicians
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 09/ in_praise_of_co.html(September 11, 2008 12:53 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Yesterday, I was on Canada's CBC Radio's "The Current." Today, I'm at #132 on amazon.ca. In part, I gave my...
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