Bryan Caplan Will Not Be Stampeded!

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Mike welcomes back to the show Bryan Caplan, a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, prolific author, and blogger at Bet on It. They discuss his latest essay collection, You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism. Topics Mike and Bryan Discuss Include - disobedience to authority - why the world is wrong and the weird is right - herding and hysteria - the ubiquity (and danger) of crusades - what the world got wrong about COVID - combining cynicism and idealism Bryan Caplan on X The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Economist has been championing progress for almost 200 years,
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0:26.1	So for fact sake, search The Economist.
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1:05.0	Love the government, hug the government, love, the government, hug the government, love the government, love the government, hug the government. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
1:18.8	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Barronowski.
1:22.6	My guest today is Brian Kaplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, prolific author and blogger at Bet on It.
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