Don’t Bite the Hand: Why Public Schools Can’t Afford to Teach Economics
Tate Fegley argues that government schools fail to teach sound economics not necessarily out of malice, but because they have no incentive to teach the very ideas that would undermine them. Drawing on Hayek, Mises, and Rothbard, he examines competition, teacher pay, and bureaucracy to explain why.
Recorded in Greenville, South Carolina, on September 12, 2026.
Special thanks to Bryan Lee Briggs for sponsoring this event.
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