Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan
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Born	Bryan Douglas Caplan (1971-04-08) April 8, 1971 Northridge, California, U.S.

Academic background
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BA) Princeton University (PhD)
Influences	Ben Bernanke, James M. Buchanan, Michael Huemer, Ludwig von Mises, Philip Tetlock
Academic work
Discipline	Economics
School or tradition	Anarcho-capitalism Libertarianism Public choice
Notable ideas	Rational irrationality

Website	bcaplan.com Information at IDEAS / RePEc

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Bryan Douglas Caplan (born April 8, 1971) is an American economist and author. He is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a former contributor to the Freakonomics blog. 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.