Bryan Caplan

American economist at George Mason — author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders — who applies economic reasoning to immigration, education, and voting to produce consistently contrarian conclusions.

Creates the signaling critique of education as a policy argument — The Case Against Education argues (using extensive labor economics evidence) that most of the wage premium from education is signaling value rather than human capital production, and that public education subsidies are therefore largely wasteful; this is the most empirically grounded anti-education-spending argument.