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Bryan Caplan Defends Open Borders and His Critique of Austrian Economics
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Author: Robert P. Murphy Bryan Caplan
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Category: Austrian Economics Overview, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory
Bob Murphy conducts a friendly but challenging interview of Bryan Caplan, focusing on his new book making the case for open borders. They also discuss Bryan’s essay, “Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist,” and close with some brief remarks on pacifism. For more information, see BobMurphyShow.com . The Bob Murphy Show is also available on iTunes ,
The Writing on the Wall
Mises Daily
Author: Bryan Caplan
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Category: Other Schools of Thought, Political Theory, The Police State, World History
In the mid-19th century, a new political movement arose: socialism. Germany was its epicenter. The German Karl Marx was its leading thinker, and the Social Democratic Party of Germany its leading organization. The socialists denounced capitalist inequality and argued that the obvious solution was government ownership of the means of production.
Bryan Caplan Critiques Jeff Deist on Decentralization
Mises Wire
Author: Bryan Caplan
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Category: Decentralization and Secession
[ Originally published at EconLog . ] Recently, some of my friends singled out this piece by Jeff Deist , president of the Mises Institute, as truly awful. When I actually read it, however, it seemed like a reasonable presentation of a plausible view. Deist: [L]ibertarians are busy promoting universalism even as the world moves in the other
Probability and the Synthetic A Priori: A Reply to Block
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author: Bryan Caplan
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Category: Philosophy and Methodology
  Volume 6, No. 3 (Fall 2003)   Contrary to Block, the synthetic  a priori  has little to do with our dispute. My critique of the Austrians is not that their methods are “unscientific,” but that their most distinctive positions are false or overstated. Yet Block’s latest reply  does inadvertently make Austrian economics more reasonable. If
Probability, Common Sense, and Realism: A Reply to Hülsmann and Block
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author: Bryan Caplan
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Category: Philosophy and Methodology
Volume 4, No. 2 (Summer 2001)   In my critique of Austrian economics, I carved out a virtually unique position: Despite the Austrians’ professed devotion to “realism” against neoclassical pragmatism, the latter approach is in fact far more realistic than the former.  Hülsmann  and Block remain unconvinced. The editor’s invitation to respond