Okay, I am now officially running late.
But here’s this
http://thebaffler.com/past/academy_fight_song
perfect for the first day of school.
The guy who wrote it is so market-obsessed that he literally doesn’t see how government policy drives the expansion of university administrations.
So this is only half the necessary analysis.
It’s still a pretty good half.
I go off to meet students…
One response to “First Day of School”
Yes. The cure for a government-created monopoly is even more government subsidies, which will induce competition. I was about to ask “in what alternate universe?” but even in alternate universes it doesn’t work that way. You get to change history, but not the fundamentals of human behavior.