I just got around to reading Ezra Klein‘s Health of Nations article in The American Prospect. It’s a wonderfully clear description of how the health care systems of Canada, France, Germany and our own Veterans’ Administration work (Ezra’s verdict: better than the private U.S. system). It’s fine work, marred only by Ezra’s egregious failure to [...]
George Mason University economist and blogger Bryan Caplan has a new book out called The Myth of the Rational Voter. I haven’t actually seen a copy yet, but I have read about it. This news is making myself kick myself even harder than I usually do, because I have a long-delayed book due out a [...]
A commenter on Brad DeLong’s blog has a few questions for me, apropos of the snide opening line of a post I wrote a couple days ago: Economist Brad DeLong, as part of his long-running campaign to persuade the world that journalists are flawed (and many are; unlike academic economists, who are right about everything [...]
