View Single Post
Old 01-13-2004, 12:51 PM   #10
russotto
Professor
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,788
Costs are in a positive feedback loop. Colleges raise tuition because they can and still keep the lecture halls filled with warm bodies. When they raise prices, governments raise subsidies. Which means more people can afford to go, which means colleges can raise prices again etc.
russotto is offline   Reply With Quote