Bryan Caplan
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Oct 15, 2026
Dwarkesh PatelGUEST
So one of my first guests, I think my second or third guest that I had on my podcast when I was a sophomore in college, uh, was a bunch of economists.
Dwarkesh PatelGUEST
It started with your colleague Bryan Caplan.
Dwarkesh PatelGUEST
I think you were the third guest I had on.
Dwarkesh PatelGUEST
Tyler Cowen needs no introduction, so we'll just begin.
Steve GruberHOST
I'll give you the last word.
Simon HankinsonGUEST
Yeah, that's a very fair point, and I had the same, uh, point to make with Brian Caplan, a professor who believes in open borders.
Simon HankinsonGUEST
Uh, number of terrorist attacks in Hungary, zero.
Simon HankinsonGUEST
Poland, zero, by Islamists.
Gregory HoodGUEST
Obviously, the most famous is Robert Putnam, the author of Bowling Alone, who published some research showing that diversity destroys social trust, not just between groups, but within groups.
Gregory HoodGUEST
And what I find especially amusing, I believe it was Brian Kaplan, who has actually praised immigration on the grounds precisely because it undermines social trust.
Gregory HoodGUEST
And so it undermines support for welfare states and the kinds of social programs that Europeans have taken for granted.
Gregory HoodGUEST
What's interesting is as racial diversity increases in Europe, I think you're seeing those welfare programs on a lot of the state programs that used to be the bedrock of their societies.
Philip SwensonGUEST
And, you know, even if you're like,
JDHOST
there's, you know, Brian Kaplan's selfish reasons to have more kids.
JDHOST
We need to write a book, saintly reasons to have more kids.
Philip SwensonGUEST
Oh, that's a great idea.
Max EfremovGUEST
Austrian economics, libertarianism, a primacy on markets, and it's a kind of optimal coordinating system.
Max EfremovGUEST
Tyler Cowen, Brian Kaplan.
Max EfremovGUEST
Robin Hanson, some of these folks have been intellectual heroes of mine for years.
Max EfremovGUEST
I had the privilege of meeting them and becoming friends and acquaintances with
Hrishikesh JoshiGUEST
So on one level, you might think, well, effective altruism should be for open borders.
Hrishikesh JoshiGUEST
And this is a argument, for example, defended by Brian Kaplan, who's an economist at GMU.
Hrishikesh JoshiGUEST
I love his work.
Hrishikesh JoshiGUEST
It's great.
27 MINS LATER
CleoHOST
We're not tenured.
XavierHOST
So where would we restart? Gee.
XavierHOST
I don't know how good, you know, diversity admissions would be for viewpoints, right? Like, okay, we're at the new school, right? And now they have to hire like libertarian, they have to hire like Brian Kaplan now for their checklist.
XavierHOST
I don't know how productive that is towards academia.
Joe GettyHOST
Uh, more than The Myth of the Rational Voter by, uh, what's the bloke's name? I can never remember it.
Joe GettyHOST
Uh, Bryan Caplan and, and he deals with, like, four system- systemic biases that voters have, and it's way more than chance.
Joe GettyHOST
It's just, it's a human tendency to misperceive certain things, to get wrong certain things about economics, and the number one, uh, bias is anti-market bias.
Joe GettyHOST
People systematically underestimate the social benefits of markets and the price mechanism.
Luis GaricanoGUEST
I guess voters are pretty inattentive.
Luis GaricanoGUEST
I think that your colleague, Brian Kaplan, wrote a beautiful book about it, The Myth of the Rational Voter, which is perfectly rational, that...
Luis GaricanoGUEST
They are inattentive.
Luis GaricanoGUEST
If we doubt, why do they have the incentive to stand up and vote? Why would they have the incentive to figure out what the program of the different parties is? So they're inattentive.
27 MINS LATER
Luis GaricanoGUEST
And many of the supply chain, which is German.
Luis GaricanoGUEST
What you can aspire to...
Luis GaricanoGUEST
I've been defending the second-mover strategy for Europe with my colleague Jesus Arrequejo.
Luis GaricanoGUEST
What we are defending is being a fast implementer, profiting from the gigantic investment that the Americans are making in many things that will actually, like the railroads, eventually not lead to significant value capture, but will generate enormous dissipated welfare gains for everybody.
Joe GettyHOST
More than The Myth of the Rational Voter by what's the bloke's name? I can never remember it.
Joe GettyHOST
Brian Kaplan.
Joe GettyHOST
And he deals with like four subjects.
Joe GettyHOST
System systemic biases that voters have.
Joe GettyHOST
More than the myth of the rational voter by what's the bloke's name? I can never remember it.
Joe GettyHOST
Brian Kaplan.
Joe GettyHOST
And he deals with like four system systemic biases that voters have.
Joe GettyHOST
And it's way more than chance.
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