{"id":27155,"date":"2021-07-22T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/professional-titles-confer-too-much-undeserved-authority#id30208"},"modified":"2021-07-22T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:55:00","slug":"tyler-cowen-titles-are-complex-and-we-cannot-abolish-them-outright-but-perhaps-professional-titles-are-due-for-a-rethink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/tyler-cowen-titles-are-complex-and-we-cannot-abolish-them-outright-but-perhaps-professional-titles-are-due-for-a-rethink\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Cowen: Titles are complex, and we cannot abolish them outright, \u201cbut perhaps professional titles are due for a rethink?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Why should I be called &ldquo;Professor Cowen,&rdquo; but few people would address the person fixing their toilet as &ldquo;Plumber Jones&rdquo;? Aren&rsquo;t we giving some professionals too much status automatically? <\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2021-07-20\/stop-calling-professors-professor?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view&#038;sref=htOHjx5Y\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/professional-titles-confer-too-much-undeserved-authority\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Why should I be called &ldquo;Professor Cowen,&rdquo; but few people would address the person fixing their toilet as &ldquo;Plumber Jones&rdquo;? Aren&rsquo;t we giving some professionals too much status automatically?<br \/>\n &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27156,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27155\/revisions\/27156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}