Education is Not a Placebo (My 15 Seconds of Fame)

I'm going to be FAMOUS for all of about 15 seconds. On my drive home Thursday evening I heard the following commentary on NPR's Marketplace programEducation works as a placebo effectTYLER COWEN: There's lots of evidence that placebos work in medicine; people get well simply because they think they're supposed to.But we're learning that placebos apply to a lot of other areas and that includes