Episode · The Ben & Marc Show · 2024-01-13
Books mentioned on Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. In this latest episode, Marc and Ben tackle the university system – a hot topic that’s been dominating the news over the past few months.
Marc Andreessen discussed The Case against Education by Bryan Caplan and Public opinion by Walter Lippmann.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Case against Education
The Case against Education by Bryan Caplan is a provocative economic book arguing that the modern education system is largely a waste of time and money because college degrees function primarily as social signaling mechanisms rather than tools for imparting useful skills.
Discussed“um so so this is a very interesting topic and actually a lot of I know on this I learned from there's an economist named Brian Kaplan who's written a book called like the book is he's a he's a 10ar university professor at George Mason University he spent his life in Academia um but he gave his book a”
Where to get it
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Public opinion
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann is a foundational political science text published in 1922 that examines how media, stereotypes, and psychological biases shape the thoughts and actions of the citizenry in a modern industrial democracy.
Discussed“this a wood Wilson idea right wood yeah it's a wi Wilson era thing almost 100 almost exactly 100 years ago is when this started um and in particularly there's there's a book called public opinion written by a guy Nam Walter Litman that sort of Define this at the time what I'm about to describe”
Where to get it
