Podcast Episodes featuring Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan on Thomas Szasz and The Myth of Mental Illness

The Aaron Olson Podcast - July 14, 2022 11:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Bryan Caplan and I discuss the ideas of the iconoclast social critic and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Dr. Caplan won the Thomas Szasz award in 2005 for his paper, The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness. We have a wide-ranging conversation about Szasz, his ideas, and h...

How Evil Are Politicians Feat. Bryan Caplan

Startup Rebels - May 29, 2022 15:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Power-hunger, false rhetoric, and the lowest common denominator: Politics is a dirty business and nobody knows that more than Bryan Caplan. Bryan is a philosophically-minded economist and intellectual rebel trained at Princeton and Berkeley. He's a professor at George Mason University, an autho...

Open Borders with NYTimes best selling author Bryan Caplan

Fringe Voices - November 19, 2019 11:17 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Today we step away from the Bronx to interview NYTimes best selling author and Professor of Economics, Bryan Caplan about his book Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration. We also discuss his future book about Poverty and some other interesting "food for thought" topics. Note: Not al...

51: Bryan Caplan

Neohuman - November 04, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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... The post 51: Bryan Caplan appeared first on LIVE IN LIMBO.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)

Conversations with Tyler - May 23, 2018 12:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Though what Taleb was really after was a discussion with Bryan Caplan (which starts at 51:50), the philosopher, mathematician, and author most recently of *Skin in the Game* also generously agreed to a conversation with Tyler. They discuss the ancient Phoenicians and Greco-Roman heritage of Le...

Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)

Conversations with Tyler - May 09, 2018 11:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
"No single paper is that good", says Bryan Caplan. To really understand a topic, you need to read the entire literature in the field. And to do the kind of scholarship Bryan's work requires, you need to cover multiple fields. Only that way can you assemble a wide variety of evidence into useful ...

45: Bryan Caplan

Neohuman - April 02, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In the 45th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Bryan Caplan. Bryan is an American economist and a professor of economics at George Mason University, reserach fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at... The post 45: Bryan Caplan appeared first on LIVE IN LIMBO.