Neohuman

51: Bryan Caplan

For the 51th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Bryan Caplan. A returning guest on NEOHUMAN, Bryan is an American economist and a professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and frequent contributor to Freakonomics, as well as publishing his own blog, EconLog. He is a self-described economic libertarian, and the author of four books including The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money. They talk about a wide range of subjects including economy, immigration, technology, politics, jobs, automation, cryptocurrencies, and Bryan’s new book ‘Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration’.

Links: 

Bryan Caplan: www.bcaplan.com

Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration: www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960

ECONLOG: http://econlog.econlib.org

Why This Economist Thinks Public Education is Mostly Pointless: www.vox.com/conversations/2018/2/16/16870408/public-education-libertarianism-democracy-bryan-caplan

The Myth of the Rational Voter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter

About author

Photographer, and Senior Music Writer at Live in Limbo. Agah is a musician, sound designer, and hobbyist writer & photographer. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMY Awards), and former voting member and judge of CARAS (JUNO Awards).