A Little Hope for Hong Kong Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Jul 11 2005 SHARE POST: Dan Klein has alerted me to the presence of two free-market organizations in Hong Kong, the Lion Rock Institute and The Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research. It’s a start. Klein also pointed me to a nice lecture on what made Hong Kong great.
Jul 12 2005 Microeconomics Big Brains and Free Samples Bryan Caplan I was intrigued by Arthur Robson's explanation for why "intelligence and longevity were simultaneously exaggerated in humans." ("The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior" 2001. Journal of Economic Literature 39: 11-33): Not only has human brain size increased dramatically over the last two million years, but human ... 0 Read More
Jul 11 2005 Politics and Economics Rule By Fools Is the Rule Bryan Caplan Brad DeLong keeps asking "Why Oh Why Are We Ruled by These Fools?" (see here, here, and here for starters). This makes me wonder whether he'd ask the same question if he came across the following passage from Jeffrey Cohen's Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy-making: As his biographer Reeves pithily obser... 20 Read More
Jul 11 2005 Cross-country Comparisons A Little Hope for Hong Kong Bryan Caplan Dan Klein has alerted me to the presence of two free-market organizations in Hong Kong, the Lion Rock Institute and The Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research. It's a start. Klein also pointed me to a nice lecture on what made Hong Kong great. 0 Read More