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Bryan Caplan Keynote Lecture

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The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising on 19 March 2025 at 7 p.m. the Master Lecture ".Liberal voices: democracy and policy choice"Bryan Caplan will give a talk on the occasion of his latest work The myth of the rational voter: why democracies choose bad policies published by Deusto.

Bryan Caplan (born 1971) is a Professor ... partner of economy in the George Mason University at Fairfax, Virginia. He received his B.S. degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph. Princeton University. His professional work has been devoted to the study of the philosophy of the libertarianismthe capitalism from free market and the anarchism (he is the author of the famous FAQ Anarchist Theory FAQ) from the point of view of anarcho-capitalist. He has published in the American Economic Review, Public Choice, and the Journal of Law and Economics, among others. He is a blogger at EconLog along with Arnold Kling, and has on occasion been a guest blogger at Marginal Revolution with two of his colleagues at George Mason, Tyler Cowen y Alex Tabarrok. He is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute at Washington D. C. Currently, his main research interest is in public economics. He has criticised the rational voter hypothesis that forms the basis for the public choice theorybut generally agrees with his conclusions on the basis of his own model of "rational irrationality". Caplan's book on this subject, The myth of the rational voter (Princeton University Press 2007), is a response to the arguments put forward by the economist Donald Wittman in his workThe myth of democratic deficit. Maintains a website that includes the Museum of Communism in which he criticises the ideology Marxist. Caplan has also written a graphic novel online call Amore Infernale.

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