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Edward Glaeser, chair of the Department of Economics at Harvard University and famed reviver of the field of urban economics talks Build, Baby, Build with author Bryan Caplan. What inspired Glaeser to study the economics of housing? What makes housing regulation so destructive - and so popular? And what is it like to travel through time in a comic book?!

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’s Zach Weinersmith, illustrator of Bryan Caplan’s Open Borders, talks with Bryan about his new non-fiction graphic novel, Build, Baby, Build, illustrated by Ady Branzei. What do immigration and YIMBY have in common? How do writers and artists team up to make books like these - and why is it worth it? Plus: How to tell your readers what they don’t want to hear.

Bryan Caplan talks to Café Hayek’s Don Boudreaux about his new Build, Baby, Build. After discussing the connection between Bastiat’s deepest insight and the aesthetics of housing, they turn to the national conservative case for protectionism - and why housing deregulation is a much better solution for the plight of non-college males. Book link: amzn.to/4bs6MXR

Bryan Caplan talks to Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen about his new Build, Baby, Build. How much of a YIMBY is Tyler really? He wants to radically deregulate Oakland but not San Francisco, and sell off 90% of federal land but definitely not the Grand Canyon. An animated discussion between two economists who have been friends for over 30 years. Book Link: www.amazon.com/Build-Baby-Science-Hous...

Bryan Caplan talks to UCLA’s Michael Manville his new Build, Baby, Build. Manville is one of the world’s top researchers on the psychology of NIMBYism. What drives opposition to new construction: self-interest, or something much stranger? Book Link: www.amazon.com/Build-Baby-Science-Housing-Regulation/dp/1952223415?&linkCode=sl1&tag=bryacaplwebp-20&linkId=d55c5c947b938f39f06dee7503b3f78d&langua...

Bryan Caplan talks to Harvard’s Jason Furman about his new Build, Baby, Build. Furman teaches Ec10, the famed intro econ course. What does he tell his students about housing deregulation, and how does he respond to standard objections and alternatives? Book Link: www.amazon.com/Build-Baby-Science-Housing-Regulation/dp/1952223415?&linkCode=sl1&tag=bryacaplwebp-20&linkId=d55c5c947b938f39f06dee750...

Big Tech social media platforms such as Google and Facebook have more influence over the marketplace of ideas than perhaps any other companies. Should the law treat them like telephones, telegraphs, and other “common carriers,” newspapers which have a First Amendment right to refuse to print content, or something else? The Supreme Court recently addressed this issue in Netchoice v. Paxton where...

Mark is a distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a contributing editor at the City Journal, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick school of engineering, and co-founding partner in Montrose Lane, an energy fund. Earlier Mark served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan, and prior to that was an experimental physicist and developmen...

In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on Judaism and Christianity. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers the history and ideas of these two uber-influential religions. How did the most influential religion of all time spring out of the faith of a weak people on the periphery of the civilized world? What do the two religions still have in common? ...

The Judeo-Christian Tradition Lecture 3: Ethical/Political/Economic Teaching of the Judeo-Christian Tradition In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on Judaism and Christianity. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers the history and ideas of these two uber-influential religions. How did the most influential religion of all time spring out of the fa...

In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on Judaism and Christianity. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers the history and ideas of these two uber-influential religions. How did the most influential religion of all time spring out of the faith of a weak people on the periphery of the civilized world? What do the two religions still have in common? ...

Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. He has written The Myth of the Rational Voter, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, Open Borders, Labor Econ Versus the World, How Evil Are Politicians?, and Don’t Be a Feminist. He is the editor a...

In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on Judaism and Christianity. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers the history and ideas of these two uber-influential religions. How did the most influential religion of all time spring out of the faith of a weak people on the periphery of the civilized world? What do the two religions still have in common? ...

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The Role of Religion in History - Lecture 3: Judaism and Christianity

The Role of Religion in History - Lecture 2: Indian Religion

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