November 06, 2013
Isaac Morehouse: Maybe You Should Drop Out of College
Isaac Morehouse argues that college is a waste of time and bad investment for most people. What is college for? If it’s a four year social experience, it seems really…
Author: Jason Brennan
November 01, 2013
LET THEM WORK: Bryan Caplan’s Opening Post in a Debate on Immigration
Read it here. Excerpt: You could object that we’re not obliged to help total strangers, but allowing people to accept a job is not charity. It’s minimal decency. If Kathleen gets a…
October 31, 2013
Another conversation I had about a priori psychology
I previously discussed a conversation I had with a senior, well-known Austrian at a conference. Remarkably, I had a very similar fictional conversation this weekend with a fictional aproirist psychologist:…
October 27, 2013
Political Psychology, Bias, and Being a Team Player
In the afterword of The Ethics of Voting, I wrote up a brief account of political bias and some measures one could take to overcome it (somewhat). An excerpt: Dangerous…
October 27, 2013
Von Mises vs. Rothbard: A Clarification
Some people have asked, if I think pure a priori economics cannot be used to defend actual markets, then how can I like von Mises but not Rothbard? After all,…
October 25, 2013
On Being a “Regime-Approved Libertarian” and “Working in a Bubble”
I am an academic, working at a fancy, establishment school, who writes for academic outlets. One might say, “A-ha, Brennan is just an image-conscious guy, trying to win favor and…