Bryan Caplan Quotes

In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why pe...

In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why pe...

Bryan Caplan

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True market fundamentalists in the economics profession are few and far between. Not only are they absent from the center of the profession; they are rare at the right-wing extreme. Milton Friedman, a...

Bryan Caplan

True market fundamentalists in the economics profession are few and far between. Not only are they absent from the center of the profession; they are rare at the right-wing extreme. Milton Friedman, a...

Bryan Caplan

About Author

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