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Ep. 55: Bryan Caplan on Breaking Bad Laws, Voters as Mad Scientists and the (Anti-)Politics of Overcoming Regulatory Gridlock

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The Role of Material Dominance in Rhetoric

In the real world, there's some sense in which what complaints about the rule of rich white males is true. But if you were to go give a speech saying that our society owes almost all of its goodness to rich white males, it would be canceled at thermonuclear level. And on the other hand, you don't take a look at your typical wealth professor. On the one hand, their income is not very good. You know, like maybe they're earning like the median income or a bit more. People are afraid to contradict that guy.

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