Perfect Post Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Jun 10 2008 SHARE POST: Alex Tabarrok has just written the perfect blog post. Don’t miss it. P.S. Here’s my only post that’s arguably in the same league.
Jun 11 2008 International Trade Globalization and Moral Intuition Arnold Kling Tyler Cowen writes, most people support their countries to a highly irrational degree in most international questions or disputes. This is part of a long counterpoint to Dani Rodrik on why people oppose free trade. One way to view the Rodrik-Cowen dispute is from the perspective of Jonathan Haidt's "five-factor m... 1 Read More
Jun 11 2008 Economic Methods How to Tell the Truth With Statistics Bryan Caplan From Robert Gordon's "Everyday Life As An Intelligence Test":Even defense attorney Alan Dershowitz was guilty of faulty probability reasoning when he correctly pointed out that fewer than 1 in 1000 wives who are abused by their spouses, as Mrs. Simpson had been, are later killed by them... A mathematician replied to De... 12 Read More
Jun 10 2008 Politics and Economics Perfect Post Bryan Caplan Alex Tabarrok has just written the perfect blog post. Don't miss it. P.S. Here's my only post that's arguably in the same league. 1 Read More