# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bryan-caplan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:51:50.201Z

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name: "Bryan Caplan"
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description: "Bryan Douglas Caplan is an American economist and author. He 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. 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."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump