Books by Bryan Douglas Caplan
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The most painful part of writing The Case Against Education was calculating the return to education. I spent fifteen months working on the spreadsheets. I came up with the baseline case, did scores of “variations on a theme,” noticed a small mistake or blind alley, then started over. Several programmer friends advised me to learn a new programming language like Python to do everything automatically, but I’m 98% sure that would have taken even longer – and introduced numerous additional error...
Hail Bryan Caplan! Again here is the link , and of course you should buy his book The Case Against Education .
While promoting my new book , I’ve repeatedly argued that foreign language requirements in U.S. schools are absurd and should be abolished. For two distinct reasons.
Many of you have asked me for further commentary on Bryan Caplan’s education book , which is doing very well. I’ll be doing a Conversation with Bryan, but for the time being I’ll say this: everyone obsesses over the mood-affiliated “I’m going to lower the status of education signaling argument.” Hardly anyone has discussed what to me is Bryan’s strangest assumption, namely a sociologically-rooted, actually anti-economics “conformity is stronger than you think” argument, which Bryan uses to ass...
Bryan Caplan’s new book is now out!
Here is the full review, which also covers Susan Wise Bauer’s Rethinking School . You can buy Bryan’s book here .
Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money.
My view is not exactly that of Bryan’s, but this will be one of the most interesting and important books of the year, pre-order it here .