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Econ Duel

Leading economists duel over the big questions discussed in the news, in our schools, and around the dinner table.

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First Video

Is Education Signaling or Skill Building?

Do you learn about things, because the learning itself matters, or is education all about the signal you -- and your degree -- send out to the world?

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Highlights from this Series

Cowen/Tabarrok: Is Education Signaling or Skill Building?

Cowen/Tabarrok: Does Fiscal Policy Work?

Cowen/Tabarrok: Rent or Buy?

Cowen/Yglesias: Why Is the Rent So Damn High?

Cowen/Tabarrok: Will Machines Take Our Jobs?

Sumner/White: Fiat Money vs. the Gold Standard