Bryan Caplan
Economist and author
Bryan Caplan is an American economist and George Mason University professor whose books examine voting and education. He is a New York Times bestselling author.
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American Born 1971 in Northridge, United States
About Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan is an American economist who teaches economics at George Mason University. He studied economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned his doctorate at Princeton University. He also holds a senior research fellowship at the Mercatus Center and is an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute. Most of his scholarly research falls within public economics and behavioral economics, with a particular focus on public choice theory. His book The Myth of the Rational Voter, published by Princeton University Press in 2007, challenges the idea that voters behave rationally, drawing on his model of "rational irrationality." He has also written The Case Against Education. Caplan has written an online graphic novel, Amore Infernale, and says he loves role-playing games and graphic novels.