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Talent with Tyler Cowen

Institutionalized

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What Are the Implications of Credentialism?

Credentials are mostly valuable for signalling instead of where you fall in skills distribution. In many cases, credentialism is an appropriate signal for just actual where are you in this gill's distribution? But a lot of other times it's a creeping poison,. the result of bureacracy looking for a paper credent and someone wanting the decision to be made easy. And we could have far, far less of it.

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