The Case against Education : : Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money / / Bryan Caplan.
Why we need to stop wasting public funds on educationDespite being immensely popular-and immensely lucrative-education is grossly overrated. Now with a new afterword by Bryan Caplan, this explosive book argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skills but to sign...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 45 b/w illus. 17 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Magic of Education
- Chapter 2. The Puzzle Is Real: The Ubiquity of Useless Education
- Chapter 3. The Puzzle Is Real: The Handsome Rewards of Useless Education
- Chapter 4. The Signs of Signaling: In Case You're Still Not Convinced
- Chapter 5. Who Cares If It's Signaling? The Selfish Return to Education
- Chapter 6. We Care If It's Signaling: The Social Return to Education
- Chapter 7. The White Elephant in the Room: We Need Lots Less Education
- Chapter 8. 1 > 0: We Need More Vocational Education
- Chapter 9. Nourishing Mother: Is Education Good for the Soul?
- Chapter 10. Five Chats on Education and Enlightenment
- Conclusion
- Afterword to the Paperback Edition
- Technical Appendix: Completion Probability and Student Quality
- Notes
- References
- Index