2022-10-06
47 分钟New research finds that bosses who went to business school pay their workers less. So what are M.B.A. programs teaching — and should they stop?
Hey there, it's Steven Dubner.
Before we get to this episode, I'd like to say a couple words about another episode we recently put out.
It was called nuclear power isn't perfect.
Is it good enough?
At the end of that episode, we asked for your feedback, and we received a lot of feedback on both sides of the ledger.
The biggest complaint from the anti nuclear listeners was that we didn't spend nearly enough time talking about nuclear waste storage and safety.
Also, they wanted to hear about how uranium is mined.
Some pro nuclear listeners also wanted to know more about nuclear waste storage, but they thought we should have pointed to the positive developments in that realm and how some radioactive waste is now being recycled into fuel for further power generation.
And there was a lot more we could have said about newer nuclear technologies or even the possibilities of generating electricity from nuclear fusion.
The fact is, we could have made two or three episodes on this topic, and maybe we should.
Maybe we will.
To all of you who took the time to let us know where we could have done better, thank you.
We love your high standards, and we try to live up to them.
As always, thanks for listening.
But thanks especially for letting us know what you were thinking while you listened.
And now on to today's episode.
Many of my students and many of my friends teach at business schools, and the reaction I get for this paper from people in business schools is either, yes, you're right, and we've known this, or you're a fool.
You don't understand anything.
That is Daron Acemoglu, and he is not a fool.
I'm an institute professor at MIT, and I'm in the economics department.