My former UCLA Economics professor Russ Roberts is out with a new book (How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness). In an interview with Reason magazine, he says: “I wish more people had access to the good life in the United States. I wish more people had access to decent schooling.”
Lack of decent schooling is not one of America’s big problems. American blacks do better on their PISA scores than blacks elsewhere in the world. Same goes, generally speaking, for hispanics and asians and whites in America. “So white USA is basically an OECD country, the rest of the USA is third-world.”
