Bryan Caplan

American economist and professor at George Mason University, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center whose academic work sits in behavioural economics and public choice theory. He describes himself as an economic libertarian, and writes books that take an unfashionable position and defend it further than most readers expect, from the claim that voters are systematically irrational to the argument that most schooling signals rather than teaches. He blogs at Bet On It, and his reading runs well outside economics.