Tag Archives: recession

have your college and eat it too: consuming education

Today, I want to make what, to my economics-ish friends, are prob­a­bly some painfully obvi­ous points. How­ever, I had never explic­itly con­sid­ered this angle on college/education before tak­ing eco­nom­ics of edu­ca­tion last semes­ter, and I sus­pect that it’s some­thing many oth­ers of even my rather intel­li­gent friends and col­leagues have also failed to con­sider in depth. …

March 24, 2011 – 9:27 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in current reading, economics-ish, education, education policy, grad school, higher education, saw it in the news, value | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (9)

my least favorite facebook group: "cancel student loan debt to stimulate the economy"

I found out about this lit­tle move­ment through its Face­book group, “Can­cel Stu­dent Loan Debt to Stim­u­late the Econ­omy.” Basi­cally, a guy named Robert Apple­baum hatched an attractive-to-some but crazy plan to have the gov­ern­ment bail out those car­ry­ing col­lege debt by pay­ing off their loans. This would, allegedly, cause all those for­merly oppressed by …

August 16, 2009 – 11:10 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, economics-ish, education, ethics, politics & political | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)