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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Bryan Caplan, âThe Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Moneyâ (Princeton UP, 2018)
Description: Pretty much everyone knows that the American healthcare system is, well, very inefficient. We donât, so critics say, get as much healthcare bang for our buck as we should. According to Bryan Caplan, however, the American educational systemâhigher education in particularâis much, much worse. In The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money (Princeton University Press, 2018), Caplan argues that we are quite literally paying a fortune and getting almost nothing of any collective value. Pretty much all the news in this book is bad. Students spend a ton on secondar...