My guest today is Bryan Caplan, an American economist and professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and blogger for EconLog. He works in public choice theory. His books include The Myth of the Rational Voter and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. He has also written extensively on open borders and pacifism.

The topic is economics.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Voting, rationality
• Defining “rational irrationality”
• What voting patterns in America might look like if the American stock market looked like the Japanese stock market
• Economic growth in benevolent dictatorships vs. republics like the USA
• The anti-poverty program in China
• Caplan’s view on immigration and its effect on the economy
• The case for more kids, and why Caplan was so passionate and so inspired as to put out a book on the subject
• Why genetics matter more than the style in which you raise your kids
• Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” and wealth and income inequality

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