Greg Mankiw’s Weblog: The Guardian Entice

I simply completed studying The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis by Nate Hilger. Some years in the past, Nate was a Harvard pupil, who I knew solely barely, and he was good sufficient to ship me a replica. I can report that it’s terrific–smartly argued and really effectively written. The essential theme is that society must do extra to assist youngsters construct abilities outdoors of the conventional college day.

I balked on the final chapter, which appears to recommend that in the event you do not agree with the foregoing arguments, you’re both ignorant or racist. In fact, Nate says that extra diplomatically than I simply did, however that’s what I took away from it. Earlier than that, nevertheless, the e-book drew me in and was largely persuasive. It deserves to be extensively learn.