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Malcolm Gladwell on “Revisionist History” and Pushkin Industries

The Next Chapter by American Express Business Class

CHAPTER

The Hirschmanian Solution to the Problem of the World

Even if we say the point of school is to get you into a good college, that causal chain is completely fictitious. There's no data. In fact, the data suggests that for some people, a good college helps you get a good job for other people. So Hirschman has allowed me, permitted me just to shrug about most of these questions and that's the most wonderful and freeing thing.

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