I must gleefully report that I am one of the winners of the 2005 Thomas
S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil
Liberties, largely for my article "The Economics of Szasz: Preferences,
Constraints, and Mental Illness." The other prize-winner is
individualist feminist Joan Kennedy Taylor.
There will be an award ceremony at the Cato Institute on September 21,
6:00-7:30 P.M. The event is open to the public, and a lot of my friends
will be coming - probably including some of your favorite bloggers. If
you live in the D.C. area, it would be great chance to meet in person.
Hope to see you there!
--
Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://econlog.econlib.org
"[M]uch of the advice from the parenting experts is flapdoodle.
But surely the advice is grounded in research on children's
development? Yes, from the many useless studies that show
a correlation between the behavior of parents and the
behavior of their biological children and conclude that
parenting shapes the child, as if there were no such thing as
heredity."
--Steven Pinker, *The Blank Slate*
