Bryan Caplan
Né(e): April 08, 1971 – Northridge, California, United States
Bryan Caplan is an American economist and writer known for work on public choice, political economy, immigration, education, and family economics. A professor at George Mason University, he wrote The Myth of the Rational Voter, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders, shaping popular and policy debates with a distinctly libertarian perspective.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
Bryan Caplan built his career at the intersection of economics, philosophy, and public argument. Born in 1971, he studied economics at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1993, and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1997. In his own intellectual autobiography, he describes an early turning point in high school, when reading Ayn Rand and later libertarian writers pushed him toward big questions about politics, markets, and human behavior. Another formative step came through the Institute for Humane Studies, where he met Tyler Cowen before joining George Mason University in 1997, the institution where he would spend his academic career and later become professor of economics. ((https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/cv.html))
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Case Against Education
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"George Mason University economist and blogger Bryan Caplan has made a career out of killing sacred cows and cooking them into great steaks"
— Forbes
"Socratic wisdom brought to us by my brilliant younger colleague Bryan Caplan"
— Cafe Hayek
"Bryan Caplan asks the same question, about everything taught prekindergarten through graduate school, and has a disturbing answer: almost never"
— Neal McCluskey
"Bryan Caplan is a pioneer in the use of graphic novels to expound economic concepts"
— Tyler Cowen
"Bryan Caplan has written what is sure to be one of the most intriguing and provocative books on education published this year"
— Frederick Hess
"Bryan Caplan, like American democracy, is so extremely productive"
— Marginal Revolution
"Bryan Caplan and Ady Branzei have written a fantastically accessible and fantastically fun book"
— Ed Glaeser
"Bryan Caplan, the foremost whistle-blower in the academy, argues persuasively"
— Stephen J. Ceci
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