https://youtu.be/upjLndKbdY4 Bryan Caplan is a professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. Website: http://bcaplan.com/ Myth of the Rational Voter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691138737/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_MVN4R4ZQ39G2BKMB0EGQ Jason Brennan (Ph.D., 2007, University of Arizona) is Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Website: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/faculty-publications?id=00336000014RXIUAA4 When All Else...
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COVID-19 Passports, Step by Step
With reports that President Joe Biden’s administration is planning for imposing a vaccine passport mandate in America, expect to see in the media a deluge of vaccine passport propaganda. What will that propaganda look like? A template illustrating several elements you can expect to see in the propaganda push was provided several weeks ago in a CNN interview. In the first week of March, host Fareed Zakaria and his guest Arthur Caplan provided at CNN a textbook example of how to present vaccine passport propaganda to the American people. Let’s look at some of the major elements of the...
TGIF: Trade is a Labor-Saving “Device”
Democratic politics makes savvy people stupid, at least when they act politically. This has long been demonstrated, and it applies both to voters and policymakers. Several things account for it: the impotence of one vote, the consequent futility and hence wastefulness of acquiring information, the dispersal of the costs of government, and the resulting theatrical mood-setting farces called election campaigns. Outside politics life is rather different. Our actions have a reasonable chance of making a difference to ourselves and those we care about; the costs of our actions fall largely on...
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