You’ve read the opening statements. You’ve read my point-by-point and big picture replies. Now here’s the full video of the Caplan-Bruenig debate. Thanks to IHS for putting this all together. Enjoy!
You’ve read the opening statements. You’ve read my point-by-point and big picture replies. Now here’s the full video of the Caplan-Bruenig debate. Thanks to IHS for putting this all together. Enjoy!
Mar 21 2018
We can thank [Bob] Bartley for making supply-side economics understandable, popular, and influential. Supply-side economics, as he and other Journal writers describe it, is the idea that high marginal tax rates discourage work, saving, and investment. It still shocks me how little emphasis academic economists placed on...
Mar 21 2018
The title of this post was the campaign slogan of Silvio Berlusconi. It's often translated as "Let's Go Italy!" Instead, Berlusconi's government presided over unprecedented economic decline, with real GDP per capita now lower than in the year 2000: Berlusconi had the right idea---Italy does need a more dynamic econ...
Mar 21 2018
You've read the opening statements. You've read my point-by-point and big picture replies. Now here's the full video of the Caplan-Bruenig debate. Thanks to IHS for putting this all together. Enjoy!
READER COMMENTS
Ben
Mar 21 2018 at 4:25pm
It’s about as useful to debate the merits of Green vs. Blue.
It’s is quite sad how economists are willing to debate such petty, ideological things instead of engaging in the nuances of public policy with actual evidence.
Dain Fitzgerald
Mar 21 2018 at 5:45pm
This debate feels so dated. It belongs to 1940.
Don Boudreaux
Mar 22 2018 at 5:49am
Ben: How much of my colleague Bryan Caplan’s work have you read? How much economics have you read? Even a casual perusal of economics books and articles – and blog posts – reveals a great deal of attention to the nuances of public policy and actual evidence. Ditto for Bryan’s work.
As for debating Green vs. Blue, the choice of one of these colors over the other neither condemns a population to poverty nor creates tyranny.
IronSig
Mar 22 2018 at 11:01pm
Who is the indisposed socialist who Elizabeth Breunig covered for?
Paul
Mar 23 2018 at 2:14pm
The fairy tales concocted by socialists to claim that “freedom is slavery” is quite astounding.
nick
Mar 27 2018 at 3:30am
At this point, there’s no point debating Socialists. They are not willing to own up to their mistakes or either argue clearly or are willing to demonstrate their ideas on a micro level.
When she argued ‘What makes something your property?’, you should have replied, ‘the basic desire for decency’ for without property there is no liberty. Why does she eat food then, to spread propaganda about how the religion of Socialism is going to build a utopia?
It is entirely reasonable to argue from a geo-libertarian point of view, which posits that there is a limited amount of money to be paid back for the exclusion you are causing, which she does not take, it is completely amoral to argue that what belongs to you does not belong to you really, but what I like is mine(personal property).
You should have stopped her right then and there when she tried to shoehorn Sweden into being called ‘Democratic Socialist’. It is not, it is a complete fabrication of reality, no western nation has been as Socialist as any other Nation stuck in poverty.
Leftists are a pack of liars.
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