October 17, 2013
Designer Babies
An excerpt from the Markets without Limits manuscript, a recently written, very drafty first draft of the section on designer babies. (The tables don’t render that well in HTML. Sorry about that.)…
Author: Jason Brennan
October 16, 2013
Political Philosophy vs. Political Theory Explained in a Flowchart
For those confused about the difference, a while back I created this handy flowchart.
October 03, 2013
Hours Worked and Productivity
The Economist ran an article recently called “Get a Life”. It argues that there tends to be higher worker productivity in countries where people work fewer hours. Excerpt: And it seems that…
October 02, 2013
More Lying with True Numbers
Headlines like this have been floating around: “For The First Time Ever, A Majority Of Jobless Workers Over 25 Have Been To College” I often see such headlines paired with…
September 30, 2013
Ilya Somin: Democracy and Political Ignorance
Democracy is a political system that empowers the masses, but at the same time incentivizes them (regardless of whether they have selfish or altruistic preferences) to be ignorant and irrational…
September 27, 2013
Is Bill Gates Wealthier than 140 Nations?
This pic is making its way around Facebook again. It’s not a new meme. See here. And here. And here. Sometimes people post this kind of thing just because they think…