Bryan Caplan (Ph.D., Princeton University) is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He specializes in public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, public opinion, economics of the family and education, genoeconomics, and Austrian economics. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times, and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. He is currently writing a new book: The Case Against Education: A Professional Student Explains Why Our Education System Is a Big Waste of Time and Money. He writes EconLog, named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top websites in the economics blogosphere.
You're a prolific blogger, but you're also a Ph.D. Am I, a non-Ph.D., wasting my time blogging about economics?
If you want to be an economist, you are absolutely *not* “wasting your time” with a blog. It may not help you get into a better college, but writing about a topic is probably the best way to truly learn about it. If all you do is read, it’s easy to kid yourself about how much you understand. But writing is explaining, and as an old saying goes, “If you can’t explain something clearly to someone else, you probably don’t understand it yourself.” And along the way, you’ll make personal connections with practicing economists, any one of which could be a huge professional help to you. Keep blogging, young economist!
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