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Mike welcomes back George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan to talk about his latest collection, Self Help is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better.
Topics Mike & Bryan discuss include:
- obese people and anti-vaxxers
- Bryan’s life of appeasement
- the value of betting on politics
- poverty and substance abuse
- reasons to spend more time in a bubble
- quality vs quantity in converts
Bryan’s Substack: Bet on It
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Mike welcomes back George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan to talk about his latest collection, Self Help is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better.
Topics Mike & Bryan discuss include:
- obese people and anti-vaxxers
- Bryan’s life of appeasement
- the value of betting on politics
- poverty and substance abuse
- reasons to spend more time in a bubble
- quality vs quantity in converts
Bryan’s Substack: Bet on It
The Politics Guys on Facebook | X
Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys.
The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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