Bryan Caplan

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Bryan Caplan is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, George Mason University, Princeton University

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Bryan Caplan's Degrees

PhD Economics Princeton University
Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Bryan Douglas Caplan is an American economist and author. Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and former contributor to the Freakonomics blog and EconLog. He currently publishes his own blog, Bet on It. Caplan is a self-described "economic libertarian". The bulk of Caplan's academic work is in behavioral economics and public economics, especially public choice theory.

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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (2008) (403)
Systematically Biased Beliefs About Economics: Robust Evidence of Judgemental Anomalies from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy (2002) (243)
Rational Ignorance versus Rational Irrationality (2001) (197)
Terrorism: The relevance of the rational choice model (2006) (183)
The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations (1999) (137)
What Makes People Think Like Economists? Evidence on Economic Cognition from the “Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy”* (2001) (129)
Stigler-Becker versus Myers-Briggs: why preference-based explanations are scientifically meaningful and empirically important (2003) (112)
Rational Irrationality and the Microfoundations of Political Failure (2001) (101)
Intelligence makes people think like economists: Evidence from the General Social Survey (2010) (89)
Rational Irrationality: A Framework for the Neoclassical-Behavioral Debate (2000) (81)
Is a Novel a Model ? (2009) (61)
Has Leviathan Been Bound? A Theory of Imperfectly Constrained Government with Evidence from the States (2001) (59)
The Case against Education (2018) (56)
Behavioral Economics and Perverse Effects of the Welfare State (2007) (54)
Standing Tiebout on his Head: Tax Capitalization and the Monopoly Power of Local Governments (2001) (48)
The Logic of Collective Belief (2003) (47)
Why Should We Restrict Immigration? (2012) (44)
Mises, bastiat, public opinion, and public choice (2005) (44)
Networks, Law, and the Paradox of Cooperation (2003) (41)
The idea trap: the political economy of growth divergence (2003) (40)
Do We Underestimate the Benefits of Cultural Competition (2004) (39)
Sociotropes, Systematic Bias, and Political Failure: Reflections on the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy (2002) (39)
PROBABILITY, COMMON SENSE, AND REALISM: A REPLY TO HLSMANN AND BLOCK (2001) (36)
How does war shock the economy (2002) (33)
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money (2018) (32)
How do voters form positive economic beliefs? Evidence from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy (2006) (31)
When is two better than one? How federalism mitigates and intensifies imperfect political competition (2001) (30)
Is socialism really “impossible”? (2004) (30)
The Totalitarian Threat (2008) (29)
Sex education in schools. (1994) (28)
From Friedman to Wittman: The Transformation of Chicago Political Economy (2005) (27)
Probability and the synthetic a Priori: A reply to block (2003) (26)
Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes (2008) (23)
A Radical Case for Open Borders (2015) (18)
Systematically Biased Beliefs about Political Influence: Evidence from the Perceptions of Political Influence on Policy Outcomes Survey (2013) (16)
Informational Limits to Democratic Public Policy (2003) (13)
How Economists Misunderstand Voters, and Why Libertarians Should Care (2003) (13)
The Informed Press Favored the Policy Analysis Market (2005) (12)
Mises, Bastiat, Public Opinion, and Public Choice: What's Wrong with Democracy? (2005) (11)
HAVE THE EXPERTS BEEN WEIGHED, MEASURED, AND FOUND WANTING? (2007) (10)
George Tsebelis, Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work (2004) (10)
Libertarianism against Economism (2001) (10)
Persuasion, slack, and traps: how can economists change the world? (2009) (9)
MAJORITIES AGAINST UTILITY: IMPLICATIONS OF THE FAILURE OF THE MIRACLE OF AGGREGATION (2008) (7)
Rejoinder to Wittman: True Myths (2005) (6)
Irrational principals (2009) (6)
An entrepreneurial critique of Georgism (2013) (5)
Good News and Bad News on Parenting. (2009) (5)
The Economics of Szasz (2006) (4)
Positive versus normative economics: what’s the connection? Evidence from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy and the General Social Survey (2012) (4)
What if the Median Voter Were a Failing Student? (2008) (4)
THE ECONOMICS OF NON-STATE LEGAL SYSTEMS (1997) (4)
A Search-Theoretic Critique of Georgism (2012) (4)
Collective Wisdom: The Myth of the Rational Voter and Political Theory (2012) (3)
REPLY TO MY CRITICS (2008) (3)
Disagreement as Self-Deception About Meta-Rationality (2002) (3)
Mises’ democracy–dictatorship equivalence theorem: A critique (2008) (3)
Toward a new consensus on the economics of socialism: Rejoinder to my critics (2005) (2)
Bayesianism and Austrian Apriorism (2005) (2)
Michael H. Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich (1998) (1)
Daniel Shaviro, When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2001) (1)
Beyond conventional economics: The limits of rational behaviour in political decision making (2007) (1)
ROUNDTABLE 1: PUBLIC IGNORANCE: RATIONAL, IRRATIONAL, OR INEVITABLE? (2008) (1)
Clifford Winston, Government Failure versus Market Failure (2007) (1)
Economists Versus the Public on Economic Policy (2004) (1)
Chapter 6. We Care If It’s Signaling The Social Return to Education (2018) (0)
THE CRITIQUE OF LIBERTARIAN CRITICISM OF DEMOCRACY: CAPLAN AND BRENNAN CASES (2016) (0)
Illness The Economics of Szasz : Preferences, Constraints and Mental (2011) (0)
An entrepreneurial critique of Georgism (2013) (0)
Autocratic Ghosts and Chinese Hunger (2000) (0)
Chapter 9. Nourishing Mother Is Education Good for the Soul? (2018) (0)
Technical appendix Completion Probability and Student Quality (2018) (0)
The Role of "Too Big To Fail" Status in Bank Merger Activity A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at George Mason University (2007) (0)
Preferences , Constraints , and Mental Illness (2006) (0)
Afterword to the Paperback Edition (2019) (0)
Chapter 7. The White Elephant in the Room We Need Lots Less Education (2018) (0)
Positive versus normative economics: what’s the connection? Evidence from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy and the General Social Survey (2010) (0)
Gersbach, H.: Designing Democracy: Ideas for Better Rules (2006) (0)

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