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Incentive Misalignment in Higher Education with Jason Brennan
Village Global Podcast
English - May 20, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsManagement Business Investing business entrepreneurship entrepreneur startup Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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.
- 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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