10 Best Bryan Caplan Podcasts in 2026

1. Bryan Caplan on Housing, Liberty, and Rational Economics

Follow Play Oct 20, 2025 0:00
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About Episode Economist Bryan Caplan joins Big John to discuss his new book “Build Baby Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing” exploring how regulation drives high housing costs, why economics literacy matters, and how free markets could make life more affordable. – How free markets could lower costs and boost opportunity– The origins of Caplan’s libertarian […]MORE Podcast Title The Big Questions with Big John
Podcast Description The Big Questions with Big John is an interview show where our own libertarian talk show host Big John gets the opportunity to have conversations with interesting people from all walks of life.MORE Guest Bryan Caplan
Producer/Network Grumblings Media
Apple Rating 5.0/5 Avg Length 69 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. #014 - Bryan Caplan - Here's Why You Can't Afford A Home (And How We Can Fix It)

Follow Play Oct 06, 2025 39:09
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About Episode Our guest today is Bryan Caplan, he is a New York Times bestselling author, an economist, and professor at George Mason University. Today we will discuss how unfair regulations made housing prices sky-high, why young people are disproportionately affected by housing, what can be done on a personal level about expensive housing, why voters are so hesitant to deregulate housing, the real reasons why deregulation can fix the housing problem, and much more... If you like this show and want to support it, the easy way to do that is to go ahead and subscribe and share it with someone that you think may enjoy it as well. It could be a friend, family member, or on your feed. Thank you so much for your support. Enjoy the episode. Connect with Bryan on Substack: https://www.betonit.ai/ Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Baby-Science-Housing-Regulation/dp/1952223415 - Get in Touch: Instagram: https://instagram.com/djbanda10 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dbandaa/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedavidbanda MORE Podcast Title C&S Podcast
Podcast Description Welcome to the C&S (Carrots and Sticks) Podcast, where we dive deep into the complexities of life, relationships, careers, and personal growth. The C&S podcast is all about living courageously. Through engaging conversations with inspiring guests, we explore what it means to embrace life with vulnerability, candor, and accountability in all areas: passions, relationships, profession, and self. Whether you’re navigating a new career path, building meaningful connections, or striving to live authentically, the C&S Podcast offers insightful stories and brutally honest lessons that empower you to take risks, embrace discomfort, and lead a more intentional life. Join us as we challenge the status quo and inspire you to live more courageously, one conversation at a time.MORE Guest Bryan Caplan
Producer/Network David Banda
Apple Rating 5.0/5 Avg Length 89 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. GMoLS7E40 Critics of Higher Education with Donald Clark

Follow Play Jun 01, 2025 1:26:13
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About Episode Who is higher education really serving? In this episode of Great Minds on Learning, John Helmer and Donald Clark examine prominent critics of higher education. Economist Bryan Caplan, linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, and tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel offer powerful critiques of the academy. Meanwhile, Harold Wilson, Jennie Lee, and Paul LeBlanc present alternative visions for more inclusive and effective systems. Is higher education broken—or just in need of reinvention? TIMESTAMPS ·       00:00:00 - Start ·       00:01:54 - Intro ·       00:02:55 - Introducing Critics of Higher Education ·       00:07:19 - Bryan Caplan (1971–) ·       00:20:10 - Noam Chomsky (1928–) ·       00:31:41 - Peter Thiel (1967–) ·       00:44:06 - Harold Wilson (1916-1995) & Jennie Lee (1904-1988) ·       00:57:11 - Paul LeBlanc ·       01:06:15 - Summing up Connect with us: ·       LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer ·       X: @johnhelmer ·       Bluesky: @johnhelmer.bsky.social ·       Website: learninghackpodcast.com MORE Podcast Title Great Minds on Learning
Podcast Description Internationally respected author, blogger and learning expert, Donald Clark joins John Helmer of the Learning Hack podcast to discuss the history of thought and theorising about learning. The inspired, the enduring, the wacked-out weird and the just plain wrong, from Aristotle to the present day. © John Helmer 2021MORE Guest Bryan Caplan
Producer/Network John Helmer
Apple Rating 5.0/5Facebook 201Twitter 5.5K Avg Length 75 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. Episode #24: Bryan Caplan Talks Housing Regulation and Libertarian Social Theory

Follow Play May 13, 2025 53:12
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About Episode In this episode, Bryan Caplan talks about his new book on housing construction deregulation - Build, Baby, Build - and the role that libertarians have in a time of nationalism and protectionism. +++++++ Buy these books! Sociology and Classical Liberalism (Open access/free) Grad Skool Rulz - cheap ($5) advice manual for grad students The history of Black Studies Obama and the antiwar movement A Social Theory book you will enjoy reading Intro Sociology for $1 per chapter Image credit/Pixabay Get full access to Temple of Sociology at templeofsociology.substack.com/subscribeMORE Podcast Title Temple of Sociology Podcast
Podcast Description Social science, social theory, and policy discussion without the games - plus fun stuff! templeofsociology.substack.com
Guest Bryan Caplan
Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

5. Bryan Caplan on Ethical Intuitionism

Follow Play May 06, 2025 10:47
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About Episode In this episode, Vatsal speaks with Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. They discuss ethical intuitionism, the view that some moral truths can be known intuitively, without relying on sense experience. Subscribe to Vatsal's Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.readvatsal.comMORE Podcast Title Vatsal’s Podcast
Podcast Description Philosophical conversations with leading minds from a range of backgrounds. www.readvatsal.com
Guest Bryan Caplan
Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

6. Bryan Caplan - India, Economics, Immigration, Population, Housing

Follow Play Oct 13, 2024 1:02:40
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About Episode Exploring India with Economist Bryan Caplan: First Impressions, Observations, and Challenges In this conversation, I sit down with economist Bryan Caplan as he shares his first impressions of India. He discusses the challenges of poverty, the impact of India’s massive population, and offers unique insights into the country’s strengths and opportunities for growth. Here is a detailed post by Bryan on India - https://www.betonit.ai/p/reflections-... Here is a summarized podcast version of the podcast through Google NotebookLM - https://notebooklm.google.com/noteboo... More about Bryan from his Wesbite - "I'm Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. I am the editor and chief writer for Bet On It, the blog hosted by the Salem Center for Policy at the University of Texas. I've published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Atlantic, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, blogged for EconLog from 2005-2022, and appeared on ABC, BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN. An openly nerdy man who loves role-playing games and graphic novels, I live in Oakton, Virginia, with my wife and four kids." If you'd like to know more about Bryan, please visit his website - https://www.bcaplan.com/ Highlights - Bryan Caplan’s First Impressions: Observations of India, including the poverty, infrastructure, and cultural values. Libertarianism and its compatibility with nationalism and religion Historical factors that led to the rise of liberty being valued in the US. Role of population growth in India's economic challenges Application of open borders advocacy to the Indian context. Critique of the education system, both in the US and India, and their perspective on the impact of AI and LLMs on education. Thoughts on non-conformism and the costs and benefits of holding contrarian views, particularly in the age of AI Personal reflections on their influences, self-help advice they received, investment strategies, diet and exercise habits, reasons for choosing academia, and favorite board games Other Social Media Profiles - https://x.com/XpandinHorizon https://www.instagram.com/xpandinhorizon/ https://www.youtube.com/@XpandinHorizon Also available on Apple Podcasts Transcript - https://xpandinhorizon.substack.com/p... ? Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts in the comments below! MORE Podcast Title Xpanding Horizons
Podcast Description Welcome! Learn more about the world through our conversations.
Guest Bryan Caplan
Producer/Network Neil Joseph
Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Build, Baby, Build

Follow Play May 15, 2024 1:03:59
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About Episode It's Too Late with Alan Mosley Episode 308: Build, Baby, Build On this week's episode of It's Too Late, Alan and Dave talk about sexless Olympics, Jeff Goldblum, National Police Week, and Congressman Thomas Massie's Israel stance. After the Meme of the Week and the Viewer Mail, Alan is joined by Bryan Caplan to talk about his latest book Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation. Join us for The 6th Annual It's Too Late Live Show on Saturday, May 18, 2024, in beautiful Columbia, TN! Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbookings.com/b/event/the-6th-annual-it-s-too-late-live-show You can catch live streams of It's Too Late as they premiere live on Wednesdays at 9pm ET on... Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/alanmosleytv YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/alanmosleytv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlanMosleyTV Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlanMosleyTV And the show is available in audio/podcast form on the following platforms thanks to Spotify Podcasts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2V5z3MkbgKntrpAbw6t2Ru Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/its-too-late-with-alan-mosley/id1560003900 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81MzVjMTZlNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Please consider supporting the show by becoming a member of our Patreon over at https://www.patreon.com/alanmosley or donating directly on Paypal at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/AMosley885 I now have a Substack! Check it out at https://alanmosley.substack.com/ https://www.twitter.com/alanmosleytv https://www.facebook.com/alanmosleytv http://www.alanmosley.tv MORE Podcast Title It's Too Late with Alan Mosley
Podcast Description It's Too Late with Alan Mosley is the #1 Show in Independent Late-Night*, featuring such segments as "Meme of the Week," "Viewer Mail," and the host's unique (note: non-PC) perspective on all matters of current events and entertainment. *as rated by the HostMORE Host Alan Mosley
Guest Bryan Caplan
Producer/Network Alan Mosley
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Apple Rating 5.0/5 Avg Length 64 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

8. Open borders with Bryan Caplan (ENG)

Follow Play Apr 04, 2022 23:12
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About Episode The most renowned living public choice theorist, GMU economics professor and author of the books The Myth of Rational Voter, The Case Against Education, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids or Open Borders visited us #navrsku! Why are open borders the best recipe for massive wealth growth in the world. His book Open Borders is now available also in Czech language version! Najvýznamnejší žijúci bádateľ public choice teórie, profesor ekonómie na GMU a autor kníh Mýtus racionálneho voliča, The Case Against Education, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids či Open Borders nás navštívil #navrsku. Bavili sme sa, prečo otvorené hranice sú najlepší recept na masívny rast bohatstva vo svete. Jeho kniha Otevřené hranice je dostupná u nás po novom aj v češtine! MORE Podcast Title Na Vŕšku
Podcast Description Ekonomický podcast INESS.
Guest Bryan Caplan
Producer/Network INESS
Facebook 15.8KTwitter 1.9K Avg Length 58 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. Episode 137: Bryan Caplan discusses open borders

Follow Play Jan 02, 2022 1:13:13
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About Episode This month, I talk to Bryan Caplan (George Mason University) about what a world without immigration restrictions could look like. The work discussed in this episode comes out of Bryan’s incredible non-fiction graphic novel, Open Borders, which I highly recommend checking out. Don’t let the comic-book-iness of it fool you; it is 100% accessible and entertaining, but it is also written at the level of detail you’d normally expect to see in a peer-reviewed research paper. One basic fact about the world today is that it’s kind of a pain to move from country to country. You can maybe pull it off if you’ve already landed a fancy job where you want to move and if you’re coming from a first-world country, but even then, there are more complications than you might think: work visas, sponsorships, visa renewal, permanent residency, possible eventual citizenship. Basically just a ton of red tape. And if you’re coming from a third-world country, forget it: you typically either have to be a political refugee or enter a lottery that leaves you with a vanishingly small chance of getting in. So although it is technically possible to immigrate, assuming that planets are aligned, the fact remains that in most situations, there are strong legal pressures locking us into whatever country we live in right now. Bryan Caplan thinks that we should essentially just eliminate the bureaucratic machine that makes it so difficult to live wherever you please. Sure, there can still be customs, and nation states, and basic security checks—but other than that, make it as easy as possible for everyone to move around. Let’s take the US as an example. One obvious benefit of opening up our borders is humanitarian: anyone living in poverty would be able to come here and with no difficulty whatsoever be able to start earning ten times as much money as they could back home. But far beyond that, there is a growing body of research within economics which suggests that having a large influx of formerly poor, newly productive people will lead to a boost in our economy. So everybody wins. And it isn’t just any old boost; it’s a massive boost. If these models are correct, everybody wins big time. Tune in to hear our guest run through some of the empirical evidence for this prediction and find out why, according to him, the supposed dangers of an open boders policy are greatly exaggerated! Further Reading If you’re curious to learn more about the arguments discussed in this episode, you can do no better than to turn to the book: Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith You might also enjoy Bryan’s blog post at Econlib running through the many topics the book covers. Finally, our distinguished guest recommends the following paper by Michael Clemens, which was part of the inspiration for his work on open borders: ‘Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?', Michael A. Clemens Happy reading! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. MORE Podcast Title Elucidations
Podcast Description Elucidations is an unexpected philosophy podcast produced in association with Emergent Ventures. Every episode, Matt Teichman temporarily transforms himself back into a student and tries to learn the basics of some topic from a person of philosophical interest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.MORE Host Matt Teichman
Guest Bryan Caplan
Producer/Network Matt Teichman
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Apple Rating 4.9/5 Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Since Jun 2011 Get Email Contact