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 2012
January 2012
Arnold and Education: Getting to Bet
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Name Michael Huemer's New Book
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Bet for Arnold: Education Is Stably Wasteful
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Social Capital, Property Values, and Salam
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Why Should We Restrict Immigration?
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Discontinuity and the Real World
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Wing-Walking Revisited
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Caplan-Smith GMU Debate: "How Deserving Are the Poor?"
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Nominal GDP and PSST
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Murray's Blind Spots
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Antitrust Kills
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The College Premium vs. the Marriage Premium: A Case of Double Standards
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Quiggin on the Caplan-Quiggin Bet
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The Present Value of a Sheepskin
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The Constitutionality of Useless Regulation
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Tell Me the Difference Between My Lai and Hiroshima
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Tyler's Embarrassing Question and Major Concession
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Great Stagnation or Great Vacation?
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An Optimist's Take on Charles Murray's Coming Apart
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Real Real GDP
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Planets, Life, and the Fermi Paradox
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Give Me A Dozen Examples
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The Demented Pacifism of Irving Fisher
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Return to "What Could President Paul Actually Do?"
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Eureka! Economic Illiteracy as Mental Substitution
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Kahneman, Mental Effort, and the Scary Parole Study
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Wilkinson, Rogoff, and the Presumption in Favor of Economic Growth
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How Egalitarianism Increases Inequality
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Democracy: Worse Than I Thought
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Macaulay on Signaling
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Correction on the Swedish Consequentialism Study
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The Long Run Is Nigh: Drum, Krugman, Disemployment and Obamacare
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Sins of Omission: What's Wrong With Gruber's Health Care Reform
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Kahneman, Greed and Success
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Correcting For Ability Bias By Measuring Ability
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Krugman, Landsburg, Pangloss, and Fixed Costs
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The Soul of a Collectivist: Children's Classics Edition
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The Size of Monetary Stimulus vs. the Length of Monetary Stimulus
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Aphorism of the Day
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The Picoeconomics of Education
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Are Twin Studies "Pretty Much Useless"?
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Immigration and Crime: Tell Me What You See
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The Value of the Right of Legal Entry Into the U.S.
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Health Insurance, Fairness Norms, and Unemployment
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A Tale of "Voluntary Departure" from the Comments
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The Return of the Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
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The Removal/Return Distinction
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Deportations Statistics
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The Efficient, Egalitarian, Libertarian, Utilitarian Way to Double World GDP
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Of Vigilantes and Warriors
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Republicans and Technocrats
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My Worst Parenting Mistake on Freakonomics
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What Economic Theory Doesn't Say About Family Size
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Supply, Demand, and the Rise of the Man-Child
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Hard-Wired Envy
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A Review of My Review
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Freedom for Happiness
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10:1
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The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
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The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
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Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
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The Theory of Time and Frittering
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Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
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Come One, Come All: The Mystery of Business Tolerance
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Deception, Detection, and Democracy at GenCon
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Keynesianism as a ZMP Story
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How Wage Rigidity is Special
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Reflections on World on Fire
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Who Understands the Causes of Poverty?
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How More Immigration Can Save California
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Agnostics for Pacifism
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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids and the Libertarian Penumbra
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The Libertarian Penumbra
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Kindle Pre-Order Now Available for Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
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Dude, Where's My Theory of Everything?
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Why Have Libertarian Students' Social Skills Increased So Much?
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www.bcaplan.com 2.0
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The Dimensionality, Evolution, and Influence of Punditry
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Book Marketing Bleg
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Will Gay Marriage Lead to the Privatization of Marriage?
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But All the Other Kids Are Calling It "The Great Stagnation"
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Boudreaux to NYT on Brooks on Cowen on The Great Stagnation
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Why Do So Many GMU Economists Blog?
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Commie Cargo Cult
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Mao's Great Famine and Depraved Indifference
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Weather and Turn-Out
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The Great Pacification
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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids Website
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Anti-Foreign Bias versus Charter Cities
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Jewish versus Chinese Parenting
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Gelman on Me, Chua, and Cowen
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A Graduation Rate Experiment
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Beaulier-Caplan Links
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The Grateful Tiger Daughter
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Existence, Enhancement, CPI Bias, and Progress
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Why Are Free Market Economists Skeptical About Stagnation?
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Steve Miller on Stagnation
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Good Ol' Day Time Machine
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CPI Bias Deja Vu
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Dead Ends and Double Standards
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Me and the Students for Liberty: Immigration Webinar 2/9, Conference 2/18-2/20
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The Tiger Mother versus Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Communism, Revolution, and Optimism
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