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Conversations on social science, philosophy, and politics.
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Bryan Cheang argues that industrial policy is authoritarian.Today’s book: Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State: Hong Kong and Singapore’s Post-war DevelopmentToday’s essay: “Why mission-directed governance risks authoritarianism: lessons from East Asia”Bryan Cheang’s email: bryan.cheang@kcl.ac.uk
Bart Wilson on how to make economics more human.
Walker Hanlon explains the rise and fall of small government in Britain.Today’s Book: The Laissez-Faire Experiment: Why Britain Embraced and Then Abandoned Small Government, 1800–1914
Michael Huemer explains and challenges progressive claims.Today’s book: Progressive Myths
Bryan Caplan extols the virtues of self help.Today’s book: Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better
1Sheldon Richman makes the case for human freedom.Today's Book: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other
John Hasnas describes the virtue and the beauty of the common law.Today's Book: Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society
Johan Norberg advocates radical economic freedom.Today's Book: The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World by Johan Norberg
James Otteson claims that businesses behave honorably by creating mutually beneficial, and mutually voluntary deals.Today's book: Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society
Bryan Caplan explains why housing costs are so high.Today's book: Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
Chris Coyne gives a master class in how to energize a population for war.Today's book: How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite by Christopher Coyne & Abigail Hall
Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley explain how population growth INCREASES resource abundance.Today’s book: Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
Michael Huemer claims he is not a brain in a vat.Today’s book: Can We Know Anything? A Debateby Bryan Frances & Michael Huemer
Chandran Kukathas explains the threat immigration control poses to the freedom of citizens.Today’s Book: Immigration and Freedom
Jason Brennan describes historical and contemporary debates on democracy.Today’s Book: Democracy: A Guided Tour, by Jason Brennan
David Friedman talks about libertarian anarchism. Today’s book: The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
David Lawrence argues that free will has flaws, but determinism has more. Today’s book: Debunking Determinism: Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, and the Crusade Against Free Will
Bryan Caplan extols the virtues candor and authenticity.Today’s book: You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism
Max Borders claims we don’t take “consent of the governed” seriously, but we should. Books by Max Borders
James Tooley shows how the world’s poorest people educate their children without government.Today’s Book: Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education, by James Tooley
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