#49 - Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author.
He’s the author of 8 books, including The Myth of the Rational Voter, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration. His next book, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing, will be published by the Cato Institute in 2024.
He’s the editor and chief writer for Bet On It, the blog hosted by the Salem Center for Policy at the University of Texas. He’s published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Atlantic, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, blogged for EconLog from 2005-2022, and appeared on ABC, BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN.
0:00 - Intro
2:23 - The Most Irrational Beliefs in Society
3:43 - Why Do People Vote?
5:57 - The Most Net Positive Delusions in Society
7:30 - Bottlenecks in Democracy
9:13 - Idea Traps
13:13 - The Ideological Turing Test
15:16 - Caricatures of Political Parties
17:49 - The Case for Open Borders
21:48 - Tribalism and Social Cohesion
25:33 - Privatization and The Confluence of Cultures
26:56 - What’s the Point of Countries?
28:26 - What Values Are (Mostly) Non-negotiable?
30:27 - The Net Present Value of Immigration
33:43 - The Competition of Cultures
38:15 - Is Globalism Inevitable?
39:30 - Resources and Culture
42:49 - How to Fix Immigration
45:07 - The Case Against Education
48:48 - What is a Degree Actually Worth?
52:05 - Why is Bryan a Professor?
53:13 - The Value of Conformity in Society
55:25 - Is Learning How to Learn Real?
57:51 - Is There Value in the Liberal Arts?
29:27 - Bryan’s Approach to Learning
1:01:49 - Who Does Education Well?
1:02:49 - The Biggest Problems in Academia
1:05:47 - Should we Abolish Tenure?
1:09:32 - Why Parenting is Overrated
1:11:51 - What Kind of Parenting Has an Effect?
1:14:23 - Positive Effects of Having Kids
1:16:03 - The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
1:18:50 - Intangible Costs of Deregulation
1:21:39 - How does Ideology Propagate Itself?
1:24:09 - If Everything’s Mimetic are Free Markets Overrated?
1:25:54 - How to Get Ideas Into the Mainstream
1:28:19 - Are Politicians Evil?
1:31:35 - The Future of Labor Markets Under Remote Work
1:34:21 - What Should More People Be Thinking About?
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