Why Can't a College be More Like a Firm?

Gordon Winston

No DP-42, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: A sophisticated and widespread intuition is supported by our experience with business firms. And it is confirmed, influenced, and expanded by the formal microeconomic analysis of those firms and their markets. This paper asks if that theory and intuition are helpful for understanding colleges and universities and the higher education “industry.”

Pages: 15 pages
Date: 1997
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