The Blogging Meme Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Apr 7 2005 SHARE POST: The term “blog” was coined in 1999, and it now gets 105,000,000 google hits. Compare that to “democracy,” which only gets 43,800,000. Wikipedia provides a fascinating and thorough discussion.
Apr 10 2005 Economics of Education More on the Reformation Arnold Kling Steven Roy Goodman writes, Colleges have long been hotbeds of political agitation, of course. But where it was once students who did the acting out, as they spread their intellectual and philosophical wings, now the professors and administrators are more likely to be playing politics -- and more and more Americans wit... 9 Read More
Apr 7 2005 Politics and Economics A Little Evidence I'm Wrong About Voter Motivation Bryan Caplan I disbelieve what I call the Self-Interested Voter Hypothesis (SIVH for short). Political scientists like David Sears have amassed a mountain of empirical evidence against the SIVH, and the evidence on the other side (mostly economists, I'm afraid) is awfully weak. When I say that, I don't mean that that the SIVH o... 16 Read More
Apr 7 2005 Economic History The Blogging Meme Bryan Caplan The term "blog" was coined in 1999, and it now gets 105,000,000 google hits. Compare that to "democracy," which only gets 43,800,000. Wikipedia provides a fascinating and thorough discussion. 1 Read More