Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan
Économiste
Dates	Né en 1971
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Nationalité	États-Unis
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Bryan Caplan, né le 8 avril 1971, est un économiste américain. Il enseigne à la George Mason University. Il est également membre du réseau de la faculté "FEE" (Foundation for Economic Education). C'est un économiste libertarien, opposant farouche cependant aux idées de l'école autrichienne d'économie.

Il est diplômé en économie (BA) de l'université de Californie à Berkeley (1993) et a obtenu son Ph.D. en économie à l'université de Princeton en 1997.

En économie politique, Caplan a défendu l'idée que la démocratie est un arrangement institutionnel efficace qui reflète les préférences politiques des masses, critiquant ainsi la thèse de l'école du Public Choice selon laquelle la démocratie tendrait à favoriser les intérêts des groupes organisés politiquement puissants. Toutefois Caplan critique la démocratie et se revendique de l'anarcho-capitalisme, en arguant que les masses sont ignorantes en matière d'économie et favorisent des lois liberticides.

Dans ses récentes recherches, il s'est intéressé à l'influence de l'environnement familial sur les enfants. Selon lui, la recherche sur les jumeaux et les enfants adoptés montre que l'éducation des parents n'a pas d'influence fondamentale sur le succès des enfants. Son livre Selfish reasons to have more kids (2011) porte sur ce sujet.

Dans ses écrits de philosophie, Bryan Caplan a défendu le dualisme au nom de la philosophie du sens commun.

Publications

• 1996,
  • a. "Ayn Rand in three acts. Philosophical Notes", Libertarian Alliance, n°43
  • b. "Freedom and happiness", The Freeman, January, Vol 46, n°1, pp37-41

• 1999, The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Apr.), pp823-838

• 2001,
  • a. "Rational Ignorance vs. Rational Irrationality", Kyklos, Vol 54, n°1, pp3-26
  • b. "Standing Tiebout on His Head: Tax Capitalization and the Monopoly Power of Local Governments", Public Choice, Vol 108, pp101-122
  • c. "Rational Irrationality and the Microfoundations of Political Failure", Public Choice, Vol 107, n°3/4, pp311–331
  • d. "What Makes People Think Like Economists? Evidence on Economic Cognition from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy", Journal of Law and Economics, Vol 44, n°2, pp395-426
  • e. "How Economists Misunderstand Voters, and Why Libertarians Should Care", The Independent Review, 5(4), pp539–563
  • f. "Probability, Common Sense, and Realism: A Reply to Hulsmann and Block", Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics; Vol 2, n°4, summer, pp69-86
  • g. "Has Leviathan been bound? A theory of imperfectly constrained government with evidence from the states", Southern Economic Journal, Vol 67, n°4, pp825–847

• 2002,
  • a. "Systematically Biased Beliefs about Economics: Robust Evidence of Judgmental Anomalies from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy", Economic Journal, Vol 112, April, pp433–458
  • b. "Sociotropes, Systematic Bias, and Political Failure: Reflections on the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy", Social Science Quarterly, 83(2), June, pp416-435

• 2003,
  • a. avec Edward P. Stringham, "Networks, Law, and the Paradox of Cooperation", Review of Austrian Economics, Vol 16, n°4, pp309-326
  • b. "Probability and the Synthetic A Priori: A Reply to Block", Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol 6, n°3, pp77–83
  • c. "The idea trap: the political economy of growth divergence", European Journal of Political Economy, Vol 19, pp183–203

• 2004,
  • a. avec Edward P. Stringham, Networks, Law, and the Paradox of Cooperation, Review of Austrian Economics, 16, no. 4, pp309-326
  • b. "Is socialism really ‘impossible’?", Critical Review, Vol 16, n°1, pp33–52

• 2005,
  • a. avec Edward P. Stringham, "Mises, Bastiat, Public Opinion, and Public Choice", Review of Political Economy, 17(1), pp79-105
  • b. Straight Talk about Public Ignorance, The Dissident, n°2, pp6–10
  • c. Toward a New Consensus on the Economics of Socialism: Rejoinder to My Critics, Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society, vol 17(1-2)
  • d. Commentaire du livre de Fred E. Foldvary et Daniel B. Klein, dir., "The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues", The Independent Review, Vol 9, n°3, winter
  • e. "From Friedman to Wittman: the transformation of chicago political economy", Econ Journal Watch, 2(1), pp1–21
  • f. "Rejoinder to: true myths", Econ Journal Watch, 2(2), pp165–185

• 2007,
  • a. "The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies", Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press
  • b. "Atlas Shrugged and public choice: The obvious parallels”, In: E. Younkins, dir., "Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion", Burlington, VT, US and Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp215–224

• 2008,
  • a. avec Edward P. Stringham, Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 9 (2) Article 8
  • b. "Anarchism", In: Ronald Hamowy, dir., "The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism", Cato Institute - Sage Publications, pp10-13
  • c. "Facism", In: Ronald Hamowy, dir., "The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism", Cato Institute - Sage Publications, pp166-168
  • d. "Friedman, David (1945– )", In: Ronald Hamowy, dir., "The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism", Cato Institute - Sage Publications, pp194-195
  • e. "Laissez-Faire Policy", In: Ronald Hamowy, dir., "The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism", Cato Institute - Sage Publications, pp279-281
  • f. "What if the Median Voter Were a Failing Student?", The Economists' Voice, vol 5, n°6

• 2009, "Irrational principals", The Review of Austrian Economics, Vol 22, n°2, June, pp159-167

• 2010,
  • a. avec Stephen C. Miller, “Intelligence Makes People Think Like Economists: Evidence from the General Social Survey”, Intelligence, 38(6), pp636-647
  • b. "An Intellectual Autobiography", In: Walter Block, dir., "I chose Liberty. Autobiographies of contemporary Libertarians", Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, Ch14, pp73-81

• 2011, Selfish reasons to have more kids

• 2012, avec Stephen C. Miller, "Positive vs. Normative Economics: What's the Connection?", Public Choice, Vol 150, n°1-2, pp241-261

• 2013,
  • a. avec Zachary Gochenour, "An entrepreneurial critique of Georgism", The Review of Austrian Economics, vol 26, n°4, décembre, pp483-491
  • b. "The Myopic Empiricism of the Minimum Wage", Library of Economics and Liberty, 12 mars
  • c. "Phase-In: A Demagogic Theory of the Minimum Wage", Library of Economics and Liberty, 5 décembre

Littérature secondaire

• 2004, Benjamin Powell, “Competition and Monopoly Power in Local Government: An Extension of Caplan (2001)”, Public Choice, Vol 120, pp353-357

• 2005,
  • D. A. Wittman, "Reply to caplan: on the methodology of testing for voter irrationality", Econ Journal Watch, 2(1), pp22–31
  • D. A. Wittman, "Second reply to Caplan: the power and the glory of the median voter", Econ Journal Watch, 2(2), pp186–195

• 2008, Jeffrey Friedman, commentaire du livre de Bryan Caplan, "The Myth of the Rational Voter", Perspectives on Politics, 6(1), pp160-161

Liens externes

• (en)Page personnelle de Bryan Caplan
• (fr)The Myth of the Rational Voter recension de l'œuvre de Bryan Caplan sur le site Contrepoints

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