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Anonymous Disgruntled said...

It is a little inaccurate to suggest that GMU is dominated by libertarians and conservatives. While that holds for the Econ department, the rest of the University is fairly standard pc/leftist. Some of these other departments are jealous of the success of the Econ guys.

George Johnson was entrepreneurial in realizing that N. Virginia had the wealth to support a world-class University (something GMU aspires to). The Econ department has been brilliant at buying in future Nobel laureates. James Buchanan (Public Choice) was the first. Fairly recently the department brought in Vernon Smith (experimental economics)prior to his 2002 prize.

The school has traditionally been a commuter school (it doesn't even have a football team!) that appealed to bureaucrats subsidized to pursue further education. But it has enough land for a stadium and new dorms. I think it is one of the most entrepreneurial Universities in the country.

7/14/07, 7:18 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this the same Bryan Caplan who said that democracy sucks because we common folks aren't smart enough to support mass immigration?

WTF? How can he reconcile the belief that importing millions of dumb Mexicans = good with the belief that IQ matters?

c23

7/14/07, 9:38 PM

Blogger Zach said...

The strategy may not have paid off yet with undergrads, but its law school's reputation has skyrocketed. It really is the only conservative choice other than another Virginia public school: UVA (which is where JAG corps is based). This increase in ranking is due primarily to its innovative "law and economics" program, which could only be successful because of the high reputation of the economics department. And it is not easy to break into the top 25 law schools. But I think GM will break through in the next decade. It is already ranked 34th and was #7 for most underrated law school. US News and World Report called it the "fastest rising law school".

7/15/07, 12:24 AM

Anonymous Muswell Hillbilly said...

Anon,

Caplan actually addressed this issue once. In brief, he went through a Brave New World-like analysis that basically said, "We need lots of Deltas to take out our trash and pick our vegetables."

Of course, he didn't acknowledge the issue of massive cultural and social externalities of importing low-IQ and culturally alien people.

7/15/07, 7:30 AM

Anonymous Half Sigma said...

George Mason will never be more than a third rate commuter school. It has to compete with UVa which is one of the nation's most prestigious public universities.

Responding the comment above about law schools, all law schools based in important markets seem to be rising in the rankings. George Mason law school is just lucky to be located in Washington DC. (The area of Arlington it's in is, for all practical purposes, part of Washington DC.

7/15/07, 8:58 AM

Anonymous fifi said...

"Cooperation" is a word that has positive even PC connotations. What I want to know is whether these geniuses are cooperating in price gouging or in preventing the even smarter megalomaniacs like Bill Gates from turning the US into a 3rd world country?

7/15/07, 9:42 AM

Anonymous jody said...

interesting stuff. i generally agree with jones after reading his paper, though i disagree with lynn and vanhanen on a few details.

there's no way the mean IQ in china is 105. also the mean IQ in germany and the netherlands is certainly above 100.

7/15/07, 11:05 AM

Anonymous Mik said...

Bryan Caplan is a preening fool and I wish would stop discussing his idiotic pronouncements.

7/15/07, 11:05 AM

Blogger Zach said...

Well, if GM DOES become a first tier school, it won't be because of its faculty. I'm sure the fact that its basketball team caused a national sensation a couple of years ago by making it to the Final Four, upsetting a lot of brackets, had a greater impact than a dozen professor hirings. Consistent success will translate to more selective admissions and higher rankings. But it will take a very long time.
BTW, my only connection to GW is that I used to live across the street from its law school. I also considered going to law school and truly would only consider Yale, Stanford, UVA and GW, the latter two because of their ideological balance.

7/15/07, 11:58 AM

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