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Ep. 671: Bryan Caplan Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Social Value of the Education

"The heart of my book is just to question the social value of the education," he says. "You're not going to really use most of what you learned in school on the job ever." The stats say though, if you spend that money in college, you're going to get a better job, right? Well, they say that if you finish your degree, then you are likely to get aBetter job. But socially speaking, everyone can't be impressive. And we can see this in the huge credential inflation that's gone on in the US over the last 70 years,. For one in the same job, you now need a lot more education, not really to do it,

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