Stay updated with breaking news from Bryan Caplan. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
I've been arguing for at least a year that we'll eventually look back on the government handling of COVID (in particular lockdowns) as perhaps the greatest single public policy blunder in decades. And the evidence is starting to accumulate. Like this article—which is a meta-analysis of hundreds of published studies—in the International Journal of Economics and Business, just out a week ago from Douglas Allen of Simon Fraser University in
The Political Economy Research Institute at MTSU invites students and the campus community to attend a public lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, featuring nationally known economist and New York Times best-selling author Bryan Caplan speaking on immigration issues.The presentation, "Exploring Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration," will be held at the State Farm Lecture Hall in the Business and Aerospace Building at MTSU. Caplan, Ph.D., draws upon his academic ...
Burdened by inflated A-level grades, the young are now saddled with a university sector not fit for purpose
a- The political situation in the US isn't all that complicated when you realize the Democrats feel obliged to represent a majority that is yet-to-be, and feel little sympathy for what and whom stands in the way of that.— Sid (@SidPolitics) July 17, 2021 Yes, it’s like my Finance professor’s point that drove Open Borders economist Bryan Caplan temporarily insane with rage because he couldn’t think of an intelligent response and he knew it. I wrote in 2005: Let me describe citizenism using a business analogy. When I was getting an MBA many years ago, I was the favorite of an acerbic o...
Originally published on July 5, 2021 7:00 am The Throughline team has been thinking about capitalism a lot these days. It's hard not to when so many people are struggling just to get by. Capitalism is an economic system, but it's also so much more than that. It's become a sort of ideology, this all-encompassing force that rules over our lives and our minds. It might seem like it's an inevitable force, but really, it's a construction project that took hundreds of years and no part of it is natural or just left to chance. So here's what we did. First, we wanted to look at what makes American c...