Comment by analog31
1 day ago
To counter that, though without a precise economic analysis, both university admissions and employment grew during the affirmative action era.
Everything looks like zero-sum if viewed as a static, local model.
1 day ago
To counter that, though without a precise economic analysis, both university admissions and employment grew during the affirmative action era.
Everything looks like zero-sum if viewed as a static, local model.
It's only positive sum if they grew because of affirmative action. And if affirmative action caused net friction, it'd be a Moloch.
Are you assuming elite college admission counts are rigid in the count of people admitted because of real teaching constraints or reducing the supply of prestige?
None of my arguments require any assumption on why. But I would say that it's because of prestige and signaling.
University admission is arguably bad for society.
(See Caplan's Case Against Education.)