Bryan Caplan is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute. His articles have appeared in the American Economic
Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Law and Economics, Social
Science Quarterly, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, and many other outlets.
Bryan Caplan is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. His current project is a new book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think.
His webpage, http://www.bcaplan.com, features both his academic research and his
numerous other interests, including the online Museum of Communism.
Bryan Caplan blogs on EconLog along with Arnold Kling and
David Henderson.
List of Econlib Articles
Recent EconLog Articles by Bryan Caplan
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
The Late Great George Walsh
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Sorel on Totalitarian Political Entrepreneurs
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Mass Sterilization, Reconsidered
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Government Health Insurance and Pseudocertainty
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Krugman Blames Adverse Selection Problem on Government Regulation
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Why Liberals Needn't Fear Republican-Run Welfare States
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Health Insurance and Reputation
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Creative Destruction: What's Next?
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Four Year From Now Plans
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Cruel Caring in Breaking Bad
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Four Reactions to Charitable Requests, Plus One More to Charitable Demands
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What I Told the Liberaltarians
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Are Libertarians Especially Predictable?
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Balan-Caplan Debate: Suggested Topics?
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Adverse Hazard, Moral Selection, Whatever
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Sumner's One-Sentence Class Autobiography
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Mainstream Marketing vs. the Central Six
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Geoffrey Miller Briefly Makes Me Embarassed to Be An Economist
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Payroll Tax Hikes, Keynesianism, and the Recession: A Reply to Drum and Krugman
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Day Break as Social Experiment
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The Lens of Hypergamy: An Application
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The World Needs the Accidental Theorist Back
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How I'd Sell Civilization to Cavemen
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Return to Panic
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What the Veterinary Medicine Piece Really Said
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Sumner's FAQ
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America vs. Japan: Where Is It Better for Kids?
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What's Wrong With Realism? What's Right With It? Part 2
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Why Are the Neurotic Anti-Market?
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Why Are the Agreeable Anti-Market?
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Personality and Ideology: Compared to What?
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Hope His Top Advisor Sort of Believes In
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How Much Does Personality Affect Ideology?
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Personality Profile of a Free-Marketeer: Extroverted, Disagreeable, Conscientious, Stable, and Closed
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Idolatry in a Free Society
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Great Questions, Matt
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A Closer Look at Adverse Selection and Mandatory Insurance
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June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
Mueller's Theory, Wilkinson's Practice
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Cry Panic!
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 14
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When You Put It That Way, Scott...
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Crisis Dialogue
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Stocks, Flows, and Friendship
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Szasz on the Turing Tragedy
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Why Do Married Men Make So Much Money?
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Caplan-Hanson Debate Video
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Parents' Costs versus Childrens' Benefits - Does the Ratio Matter?
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Can Billions of Parents Be Wrong?
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Best Ridicule of the Week
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Do Parents Affect How Long You Live?
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 13
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A Trillion Nazis Versus the Trolley Problem
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The Book Mike Huemer Should Write
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Is There a Right to Immigrate?
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Free Will and Behavioral Genetics
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Lee Kuan Yew's Immigration Contradiction
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The Pledge for Efficiency versus the Attack on Signaling
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How Persuasive Is a Reputation for Consistent Advocacy of Efficiency?
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Sumner's Free Trade Example
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If You Could Take Any Econ Course in the World, What Would It Be?
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Who Loses From Efficiency?
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Are Grotesque Hypotheticals Cheap Shots?
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 12
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Pre-Debate Disagreement
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Singapore's Independence: What Was the Point?
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Friedman vs. Doherty: Help Me Take a Side
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The Banana Subsidy Bubble?
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Democracy: What We Want Is What We Get
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Will Obama Consider Geoengineering?
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Ben Bernanke Explains Systemic Risk
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From the Preface of My Next Book
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 11
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Israel, Palestine, and the Enlightened Preference Approach
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Hong Kong: The Envy of Lee Kuan Yew
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Joe Sacco's Palestine: Some Unanswered Questions
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Harris: The Postcard Version
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A Conversation With Judy Harris
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March 2009
February 2009
Two Observations on Milk
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Macroeconomic Identity Politics
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Food and the Family: Weighing the Power of Culinary Nagging
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Caplan-Hanson Debate: Now Taking Requests
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For a New Liberty on iTunes
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 6
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Parents and Buyer's Remorse: Lessons from the Lost Newsday Study
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Having More Kids: Don't Ask, Do Tell
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The Principal of Convenience
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Buying Inefficiency: Federal $ and State Medicaid Spending
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How a Rational Politician Treats Irrational Voters
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The Resonance of Libertarian Oratory
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Two Paradoxes of Singaporean Political Economy
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 5
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Will's Challenge
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We Coulda Had a Payroll Tax Holiday
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Austrian Challenge: What Would the Macroeconomy on the 100% Gold Standard Look Like?
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Anti-Economist Bias Yes, Conservative Bias No
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What Happened to American Unions?
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Nostalgianomics, A Cato Gem
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My Analysis Is...
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British Flynn Effect Reverses
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 4
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Does Gravity Kill?
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If Russ Roberts Was a Journalist, I Might Read Newspapers
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The Remote Control Puzzle
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Jones on CNN Money
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Block, Hazlitt, DeLong, Me, and the Noble Lie
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EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 3
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Organ Selling in Singapore: The Sad Real Story
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Fraud and Punishment
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