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and now joining us on book tv is author phillip magness. the co-author with jason brennan of the book, "cracks in the ivory tower", first of all, mr. magness, what do you do for a living? >> i am an economist at the american institute for economic research. >> have you been in academia before? >> i have. i spent about 10 years teaching college at george mason university, american university, and barry college, all over the united states. >> and what is your experience like? >> well, it was an interesting environment to put it mildliment many good positive things came out of it in terms of colleagues that i worked with and the research that i did and a look inside at behind the scenes that happens in the way that a university learns. >> and what did you find? >> well, my immediate take it, and just an institution, looking at enron in comparison. >> give us an example. >> the way that universities market themselves to america, you go to any university, glossy literature, you're going to get a first class education and high and mighty things t

. ♪ >> host: and now joining us on booktv is author phillip magness.e is the co-author with jason brennan of this book, "cracks in the ivory tower." first of all, mr. magness, what do you do for a living? american institute for economic research. >> have you been in academia before? >> i have it. spent about ten years teaching college american university and very college all over the united states but. >> what was your experience like? >> it was an interesting environment to put it mildly. many good positive things came out of it both in terms of college i work with and the research that i did. i also got to see the inside behind the scenes of what happens in the way a university runs. >> and what did you find? >> my immediate take on it is, if we judged a university just as a normal business operation there are things that happen in universities that would make things like enron look ethical by comparison. >> give us an example. >> the first thing is the weight universities and market themselves through students. if you go to any university they have

. ♪ >> host: and now joining us on booktv is author phillip magness, co-author of this book, "cracksivory tower." first of all, mr. magness, what doin you do for a living? >> guest: i am an economist at the american institute for economic research. >> host: have you been in academia before? >> guest: i have. i spentnt about ten years teachg college at george mason

. ♪ >> and now joining us on booktv is author phillip magness.the co-author with jason brennan of this book, "cracks in the ivory tower." living? >> i am an economist at the american institute for economic research. >> have you been in academia

joining us on booktv is author phillip magness and the co-author with jason brennan of this book "cracks in the ivory tower." first of all what do you do for a living? >> i'm an economist at the new york institute for economic research. >> have you've been in academia be

and now joining us on book tv is author phillip magness. the co-author with jason brennan of the book, "cracks in the ivory tower", first of all, mr. magness, what do you do for a living? >> i am an economist at the american institute for economic research. >> have you been in academia before? >> i have. i spent about 10 years teaching college at george mason university, american universi,