Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan wearing a blue print t-shirt with an open, grayish hoodie over it, standing in between two people (off-camera), both mostly out of the frame, grinning directly at camera
Caplan in 2024
Born
Bryan Douglas Caplan

(1971-04-08) April 8, 1971
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Academic background
Education
InfluencesBen Bernanke, James M. Buchanan, Michael Huemer, Ludwig von Mises, Philip Tetlock
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
School or tradition
Anarcho-capitalism
Libertarianism
Public choice
Notable ideas
Rational irrationality
Website

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.

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