Radicals for Capitalism Comes to GMU Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Mar 19 2007 SHARE POST: Here at GMU, there are always radicals for capitalism. But it is only on 4 PM Wednesday, March 21, that we will have Radicals for Capitalism, and its learned and witty author, Brian Doherty. See here for more info.
Mar 19 2007 Economic and Political Philosophy Empiricism and Dogma Arnold Kling Virginia Postrel writes, For decades, the deductive tradition has defined libertarian identity and dogma, while the empiricist tradition has achieved libertarian goals. For parallelism, we can call this second intellectual strand the Hayek-Friedman tradition, though that unnecessarily truncates the list of Nobel laure... 11 Read More
Mar 19 2007 Regulation and Subsidies Winston on Advertising Regs Bryan Caplan Here's a neat passage from Clifford Winston's Government Failure versus Market Failure (complete book available for free downloading): Calfee and Ringold (1994) focused on surveys of consumers’ attitudes toward advertising. Analyzing six decades of data that began in the 1930s, they found for each decade that 70 perc... 3 Read More
Mar 19 2007 Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Radicals for Capitalism Comes to GMU Bryan Caplan Here at GMU, there are always radicals for capitalism. But it is only on 4 PM Wednesday, March 21, that we will have Radicals for Capitalism, and its learned and witty author, Brian Doherty. See here for more info. 1 Read More