Bryan Caplan - Don't doom yourself.
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Our conversation explores the topic of housing and its influence on people's lives, the supply and demand dynamics of the housing market, the problem of expanding housing supply and preserving cultural values, the impact of immigration on housing demand, the effect of open borders on non-college educated workers, negativity bias in the news, the role of the internet in shaping cultural conversations, the impact of screens and technology on children and more.
Bryan Caplan is an economist and author. A professor of economics at George Mason University, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He publishes his own blog on Substack, which I highly recommend, Bet on It.
Chapters
00:00 The Exorbitant Cost of Housing
02:01 Government Regulation and Housing Prices
04:14 Expanding Housing Supply and Cultural Values
06:39 Deregulation and Open Borders
10:55 The Internet and the Negativity Bias
45:05 Nature vs. Nurture and Parenting
48:26 The Impact of Screens and Technology on Children
54:39 Choosing Coping Strategies and Individual Responsibility
01:06:09 Underrated Thinkers
