Selfish/Self-Interested Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Sep 2 2010 SHARE POST: Agree or disagree: “Selfish” is to “self-interested” as “cheap” is to “thrifty.” Please explain your answer.
Sep 2 2010 Cross-country Comparisons Bond Bubble Watch Arnold Kling Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, Jun I. Kim, and Mahvash S. Qureshi write, at 5 percent of GDP below the debt limit, the government should be able to borrow at the risk-free rate; but as debt rises by a mere 5 percent of GDP more, the government loses market access and the marginal interest rate effectively becomes ... 2 Read More
Sep 2 2010 Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings From the Vault: My Review of Krugman David Henderson I was web searching this morning in the Fortune archives--I wrote a lot of articles and books reviews for Fortune between 1983 and the late 1990s--and I came across my December 31, 1990 review of Paul Krugman's 1990 book, The Age of Diminished Expectations. Here's how I lead off: Who [sic] are you going to believe? No... 11 Read More
Sep 2 2010 Economic and Political Philosophy Selfish/Self-Interested Bryan Caplan Agree or disagree: "Selfish" is to "self-interested" as "cheap" is to "thrifty."Please explain your answer. 28 Read More