Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas, Education, and UBI

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

May 22, 2020

Duration

57m

Channel

Dwarkesh Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. His most famous works include The Myth of the Rational Voter, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration. For the inaugural episode of The Lunar Society, Bryan Caplan talks with me about open borders, the idea trap, UBI, appeasement, China, the education system, and Bryan Caplan's next two books on poverty and housing regulation. Episode Website: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/bryan-caplan Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3TqzW16 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3QZlLOV Follow Bryan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp

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• Dwarkesh Patel

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• Bryan Caplan

  guest

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Dwarkesh Patel and Bryan Caplan, Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas, Education, and UBI explores bryan Caplan attacks UBI, defends open borders, and rethinks poverty Bryan Caplan discusses how his views are seen as radical, clarifying his positions on education, literacy, and the limits of homeschooling, especially for math. He revisits his 'idea trap' concept to explain how crises can enable bad policies, and he outlines a long-run, elite-focused theory of how radical ideas like open borders eventually affect policy. Caplan then critiques nationalist arguments against immigration, questions special obligations to citizens, and defends economic integration with China while warning about nuclear risk and overreactive foreign policy. He strongly opposes universal basic income as wasteful and innumerate, previews his upcoming books on poverty and housing regulation, and reflects on persuasion, disagreeableness, and his own intellectual evolution.

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