The Archbridge Podcast

The American Dream, Economic Mobility, and Everything in Between - with Gonzalo Schwarz

Episode Summary

In the first episode of the Archbridge Podcast, Archbridge Institute Director of Programs Ben Wilterdink talks with Gonzalo Schwarz, the Founder, President, and CEO of the Institute. They discuss why the American Dream continues to be an important vision for the United States, how the pandemic is reshaping traditional education, and some of the core factors research suggests affects rates of economic mobility.

Episode Notes

Discussion Links:

All in with the American Dream

American Dream 2020 Snapshot

Raj Chetty Fading American Dream

Scott Winship’s Primer on Economic Mobility in America

Remote Learning Is a Catastrophe. Teachers Unions Share the Blame.

COVID-19 Is Disrupting the Future of Higher Education

The Importance of Structural Factors in Understanding Economic Mobility

Do Poverty, Inequality, and Mobility Have a Lot in Common? Not Really

Megan McArdle on Economic Mobility in  Utah

On Natural and Artificial Barriers to Mobility

Why Meaning Matters For Freedom And Flourishing

Ian Rowe - Incentivize individual agency to achieve upward mobility

The Denigration of Personal Agency as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

 

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