Optometry Challenge Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Mar 12 2014 SHARE POST: Give me one good reason why basic eye exams can’t already be done by a robot. Written while waiting for a human with an M.D. to repeatedly ask me “Better like this… or like that?”
Mar 13 2014 Economic and Political Philosophy Being Sendhil Mullainathan Bryan Caplan Harvard's Sendhil Mullainathan has a remarkable life story. From a profile in Forbes:Born in a small farming village in India, Mullainathan lived there for seven years while his father moved to the U.S. to go to graduate school. On his fifth birthday, his father sent him a three-piece suit. On the way, via oxc... 16 Read More
Mar 12 2014 International Trade Adam Smith Bio Corrected David Henderson It is a mistake to say that Adam Smith unambiguously favored retaliatory tariffs. Russ Roberts called my attention to a mistake in my bio of Adam Smith in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. I had bought the conventional wisdom on Smith, which was that he favored retaliatory tariffs. That's why I wrote: One defin... 4 Read More
Mar 12 2014 Economics of Health Care Optometry Challenge Bryan Caplan Give me one good reason why basic eye exams can't already be done by a robot. Written while waiting for a human with an M.D. to repeatedly ask me "Better like this... or like that?" 29 Read More