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Bryan Caplan

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American economist and author (b. 1971)

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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.

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Bryan Caplan
said · Feb 16, 2021
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Bioethics is to ethics as astrology is to astronomy.

Bioethics: Tuskegee vs. COVID (Feb 16, 2021)

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Bryan Caplan
said · Jun 20, 2012
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Mussolini wasn’t just another socialist; he was the Lenin of Italy - the leader of the hard-line revolutionary faction.

The Pageant of World History vs. Wikipedia: The Case of Mussolini (Jun 20, 2012)

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Bryan Caplan
said · Jun 20, 2012
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For socialists, of course, Mussolini’s apostasy proves nothing except his supreme evil.

The Pageant of World History vs. Wikipedia: The Case of Mussolini (Jun 20, 2012)

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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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