Inflation of Education & Challenging Conformity! Bryan Kaplan | Dangerously Good with Jay Sikand #34

Bryan Kaplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author.

In today’s episode, some of the things we talked about were: why higher education is only used for signaling and not learning, taking big risks in life, why he wrote a graphic economics novel, his upcoming thought-provoking graphic novel, and much more!

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Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

2:15 - The real purpose of education

7:52 - Reduce Gov. subsidies for education?!? The way to overcome education inflation

13:50 - The problem with smart people

22:49 - The problem with giving advice

26:02 - Bryan has never lost a public bet

36:36 - Taking enormous amounts of risks

47:38 - Bryan’s ideal job

50:47 - Bryan’s best selling graphic economics novel

55:50 - Why economists are boring & challenging non-conformity

1:03:01 - Why Bryan says people are uninterested in learning

1:06:59 - Connection between talents & curiosity

1:10:38 - The UNSPOKEN issue with the housing problem

1:17:14 - Outro

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