Dave Ruben did a show on education and one of the mothers is now home schooling her children.
She made the point that schools no longer educate children, they school (indoctrinate them). Given what they are now teaching is schools, this is very true. No wonder the US ranks 27th in the world. There are those that set out to make the US average and they have succeeded.
DC apparently spends $31,000 per child per year and look at the results.
Oh how I wish you could take classes from a college econ prof I know! A conservative at a liberal college. She is black so maybe that's why they hired her.
I had a great econometrics teacher, though and my game theory teacher was alright (thick accent though). In regards to economics, I think Austrian economics on the basis of study of human action is better than the abstractions of Keynesian economics.
Keynesian economics also plays into the justification of economic interventionism and I believe that the government intervening in the economy has made the crashes worse and the booms not as big. Monopolies are a natural problem, but the government’s solutions to them have been, well improper. Other market failures like externalities are improperly derived, which is to say: “how do you know that I am not factoring in the externality when I make my purchase, there’re people out there who purchase less of something if it hurts other people and more of something if it helps other people”.
I just think, when you start explaining economics in plain English instead of all the Keynesian abstractions, you discover that things aren’t so simple.