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How to Unleash the Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education

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Richard K. Vedder

Senior Fellow, Independent Institute Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Economics, Ohio University

From declining enrollments and skyrocketing tuition to the stifling of intellectual diversity, Richard Vedder’s Let Colleges Fail exposes how centralized control, administrative bloat, and ideological orthodoxy have corroded our college campuses. But rather than lament, Vedder’s book proposes market-oriented reforms that could revive academic freedom and restore genuine competition in the world of ideas.

Can higher education be saved from the grip of bureaucracy and groupthink? What policies might unleash its true potential? Don’t miss this urgent conversation between Cato research fellow Andrew Gillen and Vedder about tackling the rot and dysfunction plaguing American higher education.

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Let Colleges Fail

Everyone knows American universities are more expensive and less impressive than ever. But no one has come up with a plan to fix them. No one… Until now. Let Colleges Fail: The Promise of Creative Destruction in Higher Education is the hard-hitting instruction manual America needs in order to save its institutions of higher learning. The solutions proposed herein are unorthodox. They’re stern. They’re tough. To some, they might even sound utterly shocking. But they’re bound to work.

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