Re: Greider

[Bryan Caplan]

Robert A. Book wrote:
Greider also has interesting material on the Democrats' connection to 
the S&L industry.  I'd never heard about any of this, but he seems to 
have his facts straight on this point.

Wrong hasn't been so much fun in years!
--


Bryan, if he's wrong about the material you know a lot about, what
makes you think he has his facts straight on the subjects you know
less about?
Shouldn't his obvious errors on cost/benefit, risk analysis, and
corporate accountability reduce the prior probability (to you) that
he's right on anything?
Good question.  Sure, errors in one area raise the probability of errors 
in other areas.  But he's a journalist.  I expect him to be weak on 
analytics.  The 5 W's of who-what-when-where-why are what he's trained 
to get right.


--Robert Book





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                        Prof. Bryan Caplan
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