For most of the 40, 000 people workingon this tree-lined campus - and yes, it does feel like a university - are engineers with a degree or often a Master's.
Then, workingon a corkboard bulletin board above his garage on the Stanford campus, he and his colleagues compared the published articles side by side with data submitted to the FDA. They also looked at the compensation figures for the author of those articles.
Bryan Caplan, an associate professor of economics at George Mason workingon a book entitled The Case Against Education, says that the paper chase oncampus is an elaborate form of signaling.