EP32 Jason Brennan on Irrational Democracy & Academia
December 30, 2019
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Episode 32 · December 30, 2019
EP32 Jason Brennan on Irrational Democracy & Academia
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Author & Research Professor Jason Brennan talks with Jim about teaching in business school after studying philosophy, what a bleeding heart libertarian is, the ignorance & irrationality of voters, how well group identity predicts personal values, whether political engagement leads to rational politics, political discrimination, social signaling, epistocracy & other alternatives to democracy, what course evaluations actually measure in academia, grading inconsistencies & their unintended outcomes, college advertising & tuition costs, the moral grandstanding of tenure, and much more.
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