Incentive Misalignment in Higher Education with Jason Brennan
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Jason Brennan, author of Cracks in the Ivory Tower, joins Erik to discuss: - The fact that students who finish college are actually more pro-market than students who don’t. -...
show more- The fact that students who finish college are actually more pro-market than students who don’t.
- Why general education requirements are often pushed by departments that are struggling, and how that leads to rent-seeking.
- The idea of “transfer of learning” and why students don’t transfer lessons from their English Literature classes to become better writers in the workplace, even though in theory they should.
- Why the cost of college has gone up so much and the incentives that prompt administrators to hire more administrators.
- Where he agrees or disagrees with Richard Vedder and Bryan Caplan.
- What Jason thinks should happen versus what he thinks will happen to higher ed in the next ten years.
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