Fun
Fun Lectures
- The Great Depression
- Public Choice and Public Goods
- Is Democratic Failure a Myth?
- The Economics of Insanity
- Political Economy and Happiness
- Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
Fun Debates
- The Boettke-Caplan Debate on Austrian Economics
- The Iannaccone-Caplan Debate on Economics of Religion
- The Wittman-Caplan Debate on Democratic Failure
- The Caplan-Hanson Debate on Liberty versus Efficiency
- The Balan-Caplan Debate on Separation of Health and State
- The Caplan-Somin Debate on Liberty and Foreign Policy
- The Smith-Caplan Debate on How Deserving Are The Poor
Liberty Projects
- Anarchist Theory FAQ
- Museum of Communism
- Museum of Communism FAQ
- Test Your Knowledge of the Communist Holocausts
- Holocausts of Communism: The Test Results
- Take the Libertarian Purity Test
- Libertarian Purity Test Results
Interesting People
- Donald Wittman, who I credit with waking me from my dogmatic slumbers in political economy
- Michael Huemer, my favorite living philosopher
- Bill Dickens, one of my professors at Berkeley, now at Northeastern and the Brookings Institution
- My brother, Greg Caplan, is the Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney.
Graphic Novels by Bryan Caplan
Miscellaneous
- My Intellectual Autobiography
- The 5-factor Personality Test, my results:
- Openness to Experience: Average (though very high in the Intellect sub-facet)
- Conscientiousness: High (despite being low in Orderliness)
- Extraversion: Average (but high in Cheerfulness)
- Agreeableness: Low... very low (but Trusting)
- Neuroticism: Low (but just a little Self-Conscious)
- I am a big fan of role-playing games such as
- Custom Civ II Scenarios
- Caplanian t-shirts and related merchandise
- Classic version of this website, which first went live in 1994.