Blogging When I Should Have Been Betting Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Nov 20 2007 SHARE POST: Last year I argued that AIDS estimates were inflated. Now the UN has cut its estimate of the number infected by 40%. This is getting to be a pattern! HT: Tyler (who once said I was dead wrong about this…)
Nov 20 2007 Energy, Environment, Resources I Like Ike Arnold Kling Fortune Magazine reports on Al Gore joining the venture capital firm Kleiner-Perkins: "What we are going to have to put in place is a combination of the Manhattan Project, the Apollo project, and the Marshall Plan, and scale it globally," Gore continues. "It'd be promising too much to say we can do it on our own, but ... 13 Read More
Nov 20 2007 Economics of Education Mentioning IQ and race Arnold Kling My latest essay tries to sort out the issues of race, IQ, and education. Earlier, I said that my preferred approach is individualism. To understand this approach, try this thought experiment: imagine if everyone suddenly were afflicted with group-identity amnesia. Group-identity amnesia would mean that each person ... 16 Read More
Nov 20 2007 Economics of Health Care Blogging When I Should Have Been Betting Bryan Caplan Last year I argued that AIDS estimates were inflated. Now the UN has cut its estimate of the number infected by 40%. This is getting to be a pattern! HT: Tyler (who once said I was dead wrong about this...) 2 Read More