Which Doctors Should You Fear?

Jul 27 2005

Economic Growth

In the second essay in a series, I write, Think of the economy as a restaurant, or, better yet, as a Food Court. Behind the Food Court there is a farm, where plants and animals grow spontaneously in adequate but limited supplies... When the Food Court economy was relatively undeveloped, there were only a few recipes...

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Resistance versus Avoidance

Bryan Caplan

Sunday I declared war on a pair of yellow jacket nests at the base of my house, and it got me thinking. According to conventional wisdom, when I use an anti-yellow jacket spray, I impose a negative externality on other people, because I make the yellow jacket population more resistant to the spray. In Darwinian terms...

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Which Doctors Should You Fear?

Bryan Caplan

Some doctors keep abreast of the latest medical research. Others keep practicing the medicine they learned thirty years ago. We should all prefer the first kind, right? An interesting post by Russ Roberts on the accuracy of medical research has made me think again.

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Bryan Caplan

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