The computer begs to be rebooted. But the tabs... There's an underlying demand-side problem to misinformation. You can't con an hone...

A closing of some the browser tabs brings a few worthies: Roland Fryer Was Railroaded Brian Easton on the perils of ignoring economics Pay f...

The New Yorker (!) has a great summary of some of the recent academic work showing the failings of democracy and the potential upsides of e...

Bryan Caplan asks: Pro-life utilitarians are very scarce.  A philosophy professor recently told me that he knows of  zero  pro-life utili...

Short notes on the worthies from the open tabs, each of which would merit a full post in an unconstrained world. If this high court rulin...

...the one who's doing something, and the one who takes offence. This is a classic Coasean-style problem. Should we blame the person w...

Paul Ryan's welfare plan, including stronger reliance on case managers to guide clients out of income support and into work, reminds me ...

Tyler Cowen reminds us of a Hanson point : politics is about status. I was disappointed but not surprised by this passage by Gary Silverm...

College grads earn more than those who don't go to college. Does it follow that governments should encourage more kids into university?...

I agree with everything in Bryan Caplan's post . If you have the option to move away from an oppressive place, moving makes far more sen...

Parenting is only " all joy and no fun " if you decide to run things that way. It's totally up to you. If you like that kind o...

Am I the only one who read the various stories on impending social collapse in Japan and reckoned there to be a potentially large opportunit...

Bryan Caplan tells us that because the return to parental input is low, we can all ease up on the parental production function. Parents ago...

Chris Auld finds that people without a high school education are most likely to think that economists are know-nothings . The proportion of ...

Andrew Gelman takes a swipe at economists . I think he's got things wrong. Let's work through it. First, Gelman argues economists ...

Hamlin and Jennings survey the expressive voting literature . It's a nice piece, and I like how they've brought Kuran's preferen...

Bryan's post at EconLog critiquing Rothbard on fractional reserve banking is entirely correct. And it brings back memories of the Rot...

Bryan Caplan's changed my mind again. I'd always expected that the overall fiscal externality of having more children was small and,...

Bryan Caplan advocates pacifism . He lives in Fairfax County, which has one of the more militarized and non-pacifistic police forces in th...

Bryan Caplan's new book tries to convince middle to upper income folks to have more kids. The kind of folks who are holding back becaus...