academic economics

[Brad DeLong]

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>On one level, I totally agree with you. The public in California, 
>the vast majority of whom don't have a 4 year degree and are working 
>class, still do support increasing public universities as a high 
>priority.  But the upper-middle class students who populate the 
>universities should be paying more of a user fee. Perhaps it works 
>out that they pay later on through taxes if they earn a good income.
>  I'm trying to remember which university it was that was proposing 
>charging different tuition based on majors, and having a full 
>reporting of average wage earned by alumni by major. It might have 
>been the university of Washington. Clearly that would be untenable 
>because people would do things like major in psychology and try to 
>take as many computer science classes as electives as possible.

Income-contingent loans...