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Class clowns is more than a business book or a book on the education industry filled with colorful characters and gripping narratives it poses deep questions that should engage a broad audience by bringing the keen insights of a veteran investment banker knee demonstrates that no matter the goals any business is subject to the basic laws of economies of scale geographic advantage and . Class clowns is more than a business book or a book on the education industry filled with colorful characters and gripping narratives it poses deep questions that should engage a broad audience by bringing the keen insights of a veteran investment banker knee demonstrates that no matter the goals any business is subject to the basic laws of economies of scale geographic advantage and . The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles they have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools online education and textbook publishing and they have with surprising regularity lost their shirts in class clowns professor and investment banker jonathan a knee dissects what . The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles they have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools online education and textbook publishing and they have with surprising regularity lost their shirtsin class clowns professor and investment banker jonathan a knee dissects what . Class clowns offers an important guide for public policy makers and guardrails for future investors as well as an intelligent expos for activists and teachers frustrated with the repeated underperformance of these attempts to shake up education columbia business school publishing 9780231179287 288pp publication date november 29 2016