[lit-ideas] Re: Canadian courts weigh drug-advertising changes...
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:45:22 -0500
John McCreery wrote:
In this connection, allow me to recommend Robert Kuttner (1996)
Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Kuttner builds a strong case for distinguishing between markets based
on the urgency of need and the buyer's ability to make rational
choices. . . .
What does he say about "education" as a product? It's a paradox: When
one shops for "education," one is shopping for something which, BY
DEFINITION, one is not qualified to shop for. Of course one can look
for "markers" of education, or
markers of a good producer of education, by looking at rankings of
colleges, but it is precisely because one does not know something that
one is shopping for someone to teach them what they don't know.
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explained by incompetence and ignorance."
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John Wager john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Lisle, IL, USA
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