Bryan Caplan is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. He specializes in public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, public opinion, economics of the family and education, genoeconomics, and Austrian economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Caplan is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies<\/em>, named \u201cthe best political book of the year\u201d by the New York Times<\/em>, and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. <\/em>He is currently writing a new book: The Case Against Education: <\/em>A Professional Student Explains Why Our Education System Is a Big Waste of Time and Money<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Caplan has appeared on ABC\u2019s 20\/20<\/em>, Fox News, and C-SPAN, and his articles appear in the New York Times<\/em>,the Washington Post<\/em>,the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, American Economic Review<\/em>, Economic Journal<\/em>, the Journal of Law and Economics<\/em>,and Intelligence<\/em>. He writes EconLog<\/em><\/a>, named by the Wall Street Journal<\/em> as a top economics blog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Caplan received his PhD in economics from Princeton University and his BA in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":573,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-572","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics, George Mason University","speaker_last_name":"Caplan","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/572\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}