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howhow mymy GRAPHICGRAPHIC NOVELNOVEL GOTGOT MEME ONON THETHE GRAPHICGRAPHIC NOVELNOVEL byby BryanBryan CaplanCaplan I'm Bryan Caplan, an economics ... an openly nerdy man. professor at George Mason University... My nerdy obsessions include economics... libertarianism... Tolstoy... strategy games... behavioral genetics... German opera... personality psychology... role-playing games... totalitarianism... and graphic novels. Princeton University Press recently published my first book. But I've also just written a graphic novel. For the time being, it's "self-published." Still, my graphic novel got a lot of readers after it was blogged... ... by Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution. And one of those readers - Tim Kane from Heritage -- got me on C-SPAN. Here's how. Cool. You should meet us at GMU for lunch. Do you like Peruvian chicken? Another economist who likes comic books? I thought I was the only one. Later, at "Wild Chicken" of Fairfax... Interesting... You should present it at Heritage. We might even get C-SPAN to cover it. Sure, sounds fun. So besides the I've also got a graphic novel, book on voter C-SPAN? what are you irrationality with Like that's working on? Princeton gonna University Press. happen... It's just about to hit the market. One month later, at the Heritage Foundation... So Tim, how should I present the diagrams? Work around them... They won't show up well on t.v. anyway. [Gulp!] I'm going to be on t.v.? Oh, I thought you [Gulp!] Of course... Just knew... It's a lot easier give me a to get on minute to write C-SPAN when a completely Congress is out new talk. of session. Thank you, ...so please join Tim! me and the Heritage Foundation in welcoming Prof. Caplan today. ...Most social scientists assume that voters' errors balance out, implying that their average beliefs are true. I liked this book a lot. My book, The And if you Myth of the think Caplan is Rational Voter, setting up a argues that this straw man, is just wishful he's not! thinking... Now we'll take some questions Whew! from the audience. Just one nerdy thing left to do... Blog it! And that's how my graphic novel got me on t.v. to talk about my "real book." True story!.

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