Is education a waste of time? Surely no one, let alone a professor of economics, would defend such an outlandish claim. Well that is the exact argument made by Professor Bryan Caplan in his new book, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money. On this week's episode of Free Exchange, CapX Editor Oliver Wiseman spoke to Bryan about how he reached his provocative conclusion, why so many people still go to university if it really is so pointless and what he would change about education policy.

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