Jimbo and Me Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, May 3 2007 SHARE POST: Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales made the cover of Reason. I immediately remembered our protracted debate on Ayn Rand’s meta-ethics on the Association for Systematic Philosphy‘s listserv (set up by the other Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger) way back in the mid-’90’s. (Here’s the only remnant of our exchange I can still find). Who knew earnest philosophical debate could lead to such worldly success? 🙂
May 7 2007 International Trade Bottom Line Blinder Bryan Caplan Alan Blinder's been making waves by fretting about outsourcing. But here's the bottom line, via Mankiw: After the Blinder-Bhagwati debate last week, there was a dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club at which Ben Friedman asked Alan a good question: Now that Alan has had this epiphany about offshoring, does he favor econo... 2 Read More
May 5 2007 Behavioral Economics Giving Surveys a Bad Name: Women's Day on Mother's... Bryan Caplan I've never denied it: Some surveys are really stupid: If women ruled the world, stay-at-home moms would earn an annual salary equal to or more than $100,000. That’s according to a new poll from Woman’s Day magazine and AOL.com, which found that more than half (52 percent) of women would pay a stay-at-home mom this ... 23 Read More
May 3 2007 Economic and Political Philosophy Jimbo and Me Bryan Caplan Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales made the cover of Reason. I immediately remembered our protracted debate on Ayn Rand's meta-ethics on the Association for Systematic Philosphy's listserv (set up by the other Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger) way back in the mid-'90's. (Here's the only remnant of our exchang... 3 Read More