Sunday, January 8, 2012

How art history majors power the U.S. economy - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

How art history majors power the U.S. economy - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

How art history majors power the U.S. economy

This was written by Virginia Postrel, a Bloomberg View columnist. She is the author of “The Future and Its Enemies” and “The Substance of Style,” and is writing a book on glamour. This first appeared on Bloomberg.com.

By Virginia Postrel

There’s nothing like a bunch of unemployed recent college graduates to bring out the central planner in parent-aged pundits.

In a recent column for Real Clear Markets, Bill Frezza of the Competitive Enterprise Institute lauded the Chinese government’s policy of cutting financing for any educational program for which 60 percent of