What Bryan Caplan thinks about government

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19 Feb 2025

Our readingThe main function of education is signalling rather than building skill, so subsidising it mostly inflates credentials.

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Their wordsSince signaling, not building human capital, is the main function of education, the main effect of government subsidies is credential inflation.

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