http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/01/comment_on_stud.html A critical question in deciding whether the government should subsidize student loans is what the market for college education would look like without any subsidy. An important aspect of the question is what the effect would be on college attendance:... en-us http://www.paultopia.org/blog/2005/03/why-economics-is-inappropriate.html The only value that conventional economic thinking respects is desire. "Efficiency" means, pretty much by definition, "getting stuff to the people who desire them most, thus making them the most happy." Fundamental free market economics is premised ... http://www.blogdenovo.org/archives/000742.html For the first time, someone in the real world has recommended that I buy Eugene Volokh's Academic Legal Writing, recently released in a second edition. Amazon sells it for $20.50, and the positive reviews on which site include recommendations from... http://blog.qiken.org/archives/001035.html While I should be catching up on other things, like citing my Note, what I'm doing instead is reading blogs. There were some comments on student loans while I was away. Posner basically says that people would find a way... http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/01/education_loans.html When I taught "Economics for the Citizen" this past fall at George Mason, I included a unit on education. In... http://kipesquire.blogspot.com/2005/01/student-loan-subsidies-revisited.html One additional flaw in the system that Posner overlooks is when good money is thrown at bad schools, such as "diploma mill" colleges (and even law schools) as well as for-profit vocational schools that do not help their graduates find jobs (and occas...