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Dec 20 2018

Behavioral Economics

A Most Surprising Clause About "Neoliberalism"

Bryan Caplan

"[T]he neo-romantic tales spun by Duneier, Anderson, and Newman at the close of the regressive nineties suggest that U.S. sociology is now tied and party to the ongoing construction of the neoliberal state..." This is from Loic Wacquant's 2002 review essay in the American Journal of Sociology, one of the field's ...

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The Unpredictability of Deregulation

David Henderson

A closer look, though, at the deregulatory movement of the 1970s offers some grounds for optimism. Neither Carter nor Kennedy was particularly ideologically opposed to regulation. Rather, the deregulation was due to a confluence of circumstances, not all of which could be predicted, but which one can imagine being imit...

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Yet Another Education Bet

Bryan Caplan

Owen Long has bet me $500 on the same terms as Samuel Knoche. Normally, getting anyone to bet even a dollar is like pulling teeth. For the future of college, however, relatively large bets have been coming to me lately. Hmm...

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