Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

Ep 37: Caitlin Zaloom on the Explosion of Student Debt

Apr 28, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What Is an Economic Anthropologist?
01:31 • 2min
3
Student Debt - What Prompted You to Write This Book?
03:24 • 4min
4
What Does It Mean to Be Middle Class in the United States?
07:15 • 3min
5
The Genesis of the Current Problem of Heavy Student Debt
09:57 • 3min
6
College Education - Is That Part of the Problem?
12:54 • 3min
7
I Don't Want to Go to College
15:54 • 4min
8
The Utilitarian View of Education
19:54 • 2min
9
I'm Assuming So That's What You Were Referring To.
22:09 • 2min
10
Do You Think We Should Ask People to Pay for Education?
23:44 • 2min
11
Public Colleges and Universities Are Underfunded
25:55 • 3min
12
Is Complexity a Big Problem?
28:50 • 3min
13
What Happens to the Old Mexicanswi Cowing Im.
32:16 • 2min
14
New Mexico's Payment Sistom
33:55 • 2min
15
College, Is It Free?
35:38 • 2min
16
How Long Is the Average Payback Period for a College Education Loan?
37:18 • 2min
17
Repayment Is Easy and Fair in Australia
39:20 • 3min
18
Is the Cost of Education a Luxury Good?
41:58 • 3min
19
Is Debt Detrimental to Young People?
45:12 • 3min
20
Is It Really Our Job to Prevent Them From Taking a Loan?
47:53 • 4min
21
Are You Having a Hard Time Talking About Money?
51:40 • 3min
22
What Advice Would You Give Young People as They Prepare for College?
54:17 • 2min
23
Studying Mongolian Poetry, You Might as Well Learn the Language of Our Future Overlords Machines
56:19 • 2min