Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness, Cracks in the Ivory Tower

The Moral Mess of Higher Education

Originally published in The Review of Austrian Economics

Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness have written an insightful work on what is wrong with higher education. In 11 substantive chapters, the authors show how higher education problems can be explained in terms of misaligned incentives. Economists will not want to miss this entertaining application of their methods, especially if they are academics.

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