Image: Wikimedia Commons

Bryan Caplan

American economist and author (b. 1971)

PersonAge 55humanQ943121

Also known as Bryan Douglas Caplan

Born: April 8, 1971
Birthplace: Northridge
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: economist
, university teacher
Education: Princeton University
, University of California, Berkeley
, Granada Hills Charter High School
Employer: George Mason University
, Cato Institute

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Overview

Author of

5 linked to Bryan Caplan in Wikidata

All data

60 statements · 20% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Sex or gender: male
Religion or worldview: atheism
Given name: Bryan
1
Sources
1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2015-08-14
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Website: bcaplan.com
Political ideology: anarcho-capitalism
Affiliation: Mercatus Center
Doctoral advisor: Anne Case
1
Sources
1.Stated in Mathematics Genealogy Project
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Social media followers: 60,863(February 10, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 242423151
54,011(February 24, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 242423151
47,986(January 6, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 242423151
41,571(April 19, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 242423151
Name in native language: Bryan Douglas Caplan
Family name: Caplan

On other databases

34 identifiers linking Bryan Caplan across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

20%

externally sourced

Source last edited July 2, 2026. AIDB refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q943121

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDB. (2026). Bryan Caplan (Q943121). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/bryan-caplan-Q943121