I wrote the cover story for the latest issue of Reason. And once again, I’ve been blessed with a fantastic cover artist. Here it is:
Pay close attention to the t-shirts.
Left-to-right: anti-market bias, anti-foreign bias, make-work bias, and pessimistic bias. Yes, the four big biases are there in full color. As Cartman says, “Sweet!”
Sep 5 2007
I just finished Aubrey de Grey's Ending Aging. I think that anyone who likes reading science books for pleasure would enjoy it. I'll have more to say later. I'm about halfway through Supercrunchers by Ian Ayres. It's about the rise of statistical decision-making. On p. 10: We are in a historic moment of horse-ver...
Sep 5 2007
I've long enjoyed negative-but-fair reviews of my work, but this negative-but-fair review of me personally is even better:This George Mason economist favors free market biases over legitimate democracy, and has more ears in Washington than you might think.Given the number and diversity of the links, it's clear that th...
Sep 5 2007
I wrote the cover story for the latest issue of Reason. And once again, I've been blessed with a fantastic cover artist. Here it is: Pay close attention to the t-shirts. Left-to-right: anti-market bias, anti-foreign bias, make-work bias, and pessimistic bias. Yes, the four big biases are there in full color....
READER COMMENTS
giovanni
Sep 5 2007 at 12:15pm
Quit picking on such easy targets.
Overall policies are generally favorable towards free trade and internationalization. Do you fear that this will change?
another bob
Sep 5 2007 at 12:19pm
OK, Dr. Caplan, I’ve read your book ‘Myth of the Rational Voter’ (Great read. My kids loved the cover. Although, when i explained the idea of the book to my ten year-old, she said, “But if the voters won’t do what they’re told to do by the experts, they’re not sheep).
I’ve also read your plea to allow more immigrants into the U.S. from countries where the voters are less well educated and by all evidence even less economically rational than the current US average.
Whazzupwiddat? Cheaper labor beats even worse government economic policies? Let them in but don’t let them vote?
Dan in Euroland
Sep 5 2007 at 1:27pm
Bryan,
You realize you have an e-stalker? (the word e-stalker is a hyperlink)
Seriously though why do people insist on calling libertarianism right wing? The downsian model is aweful.
8
Sep 5 2007 at 2:15pm
Free market=right wing.
emceay
Sep 7 2007 at 11:49am
Funny how it seems as though these biases are baseless. Is it really bias when you can’t get a decent paying job because companies keep outsourcing your position to other countries for a third of the price? Then, is it also bias when these cheap laborers create products like toothpaste and dog food with poisons? It seems more like the illustrator (or at least the one with the original idea for the illustration) had their own biases.
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