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The case against education: why the education system is a waste of time and money (New edition)

Caplan, BryanCaplan, Bryan(Afterword by)
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Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated.

In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity - in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.

Learn why students hunt for easy As and casually forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for the average worker but instead in runaway credential inflation, how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely if ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy.

Caplan draws on the latest social science to show how the labour market values grades over knowledge, and why the more education your rivals have, the more you need to impress employers.

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Product Details
Princeton University Press
0691201439 / 9780691201436
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
370.973
20/08/2019
English
391 pages
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