# Education in the Marketplace **URL:** **By** Kevin Currie-Knight, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell **Published:** August 2, 2019 --- Kevin Currie-Knight joins the podcast to talk about how different libertarian thinkers approached the issue of public education. Kevin Currie-Knight joins our podcast to talk about the libertarian case for markets in education. His book, [Education in the Marketplace](https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030117771), explores the variety of arguments that libertarians have made in the past as well as the impact that they each have had on the ever-evolving education system. What is the government's role in education? How decentralized did our school system use to be? When did our K-12 education system get so structured? When did we first start seeing grade levels for schooling? Who was Albert Jay Nock? ## Further Reading: [Our Enemy, the State](https://www.amazon.com/Our-Enemy-State-Albert-Nock/dp/1502585634/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAjwm4rqBRBUEiwAwaWjjFglIOrICzNJ0NdCHCweXtu_i0Kff0RKzw22EPY3zZ6Z_n5SGSwENRoCbHYQAvD_BwE&hvadid=174248741909&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9061285&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11192143878194438075&hvtargid=aud-648454669636%3Akwd-804539765&hydadcr=24656_9648981&keywords=our+enemy+the+state&qid=1564674103&s=gateway&sr=8-1), written by Albert Jay Nock [Education in the Marketplace: An Intellectual History of Pro-Market Libertarian Visions for Education in Twentieth Century America](https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030117771), written by Kevin Currie-Knight [The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money](https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652), written by Bryan Caplan ## Related Content: [The Case Against Education](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/the-case-against-education), Free Thoughts Podcast [Private Lives and Public Education](https://www.libertarianism.org/blog/private-lives-public-education), written by Jason Kuznicki [The State of State Education in America](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/the-state-of-state-education-in-america), Free Thoughts Podcast