14 Facts About Bryan Caplan

Bryan Douglas Caplan was born on April 8,1971 and is an American economist and author.

Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a former contributor to the Freakonomics blog.

Bryan Caplan currently publishes his own blog, Bet on It.

Bryan Caplan was born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, in Northridge, California, on April 8,1971.

Bryan Caplan writes that rational irrationality is an explanation for the failure of democracy.

In 2011, Bryan Caplan published his second book, titled Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, arguing that people often work too hard in child-rearing, and as a result, they are scared of the idea of having children.

Bryan Caplan's book urged parents to relax with respect to child-rearing.

The Guardian had Bryan Caplan debating "Tiger Mom" Amy Chua on the merits of strict parenting style.

Williamson said that the book was "fun to read" and well-presented but that Bryan Caplan did not address some obvious counterarguments against open borders and suggested that he oversimplified the issue.

In 2022, Bryan Caplan published Labor Econ Versus the World: Essays on the World's Greatest Market, a collection of his essays from the publication EconLog edited by Jack Pfefferkorn.

Bryan Caplan was cited as one of the leading proponents of the open borders position in articles in The Atlantic and Vox.

Bryan Caplan has been quoted on the topic of immigration in outlets such as the Huffington Post and Time magazine.

Bryan Caplan has argued that anarcho-capitalists have a better claim on the history of anarchist thought than "mainstream anarchists", or "left-anarchists", as he refers to them.

Bryan Caplan is married to Corina Bryan Caplan, with four children, and resides in Oakton, Virginia.