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Mike talks with Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a prolific and always interesting blogger for Econlog. He’s the author of multiple books, three of which Bryan and Mike have discussed on previous episodes: The Myth of the Rational Voter (interview), The Case Against Education (interview), and Open Borders (interview). Today they discuss Bryan’s latest book Labor Econ vs The World: Essays on the World’s Greatest Market.
Topics Mike & Bryan discuss include:
– what labor economics is and why it stands against the world
– if politicians are irrational and wrong or rational and deceptive
– the problems with almost all government regulations
– how the minimum wage hurts workers (and everyone else)
– the largely illusory gender and race pay gap
– the questionable value of higher education (for most people)
– why open borders would be a good thing for America (and the world)
CBO Interactive Minimum Wage Modeling Tool
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