Economist makes ‘the case against education’ in new bookAs more and more students attend higher education and as government spending on education remains high, a professor of economics is calling for a fundamental shift in how American society approaches college. It’s already happening.”The insistence on a generalized educational model prior to a more specialized one “is just cramming it down student’s throats,” he said. “A lot of the support for education,” Caplan said, “is social desirability bias.”In his interview with The College Fix, Caplan said changing that knee-jerk impulse is one of the main points of his book. “There is a group of people inside and outside of academia that are actually concerned about evidence and effectiveness,” he said. Not many people can say they did that.”MORE: Today’s college education is ‘a toenail-fungus cream that doesn’t work’MORE: Is college really for everyone?