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501. The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into

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How Can We Work Together to Make Climate Change a Reality?

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Stephanie Coontz: Could ivy league schools agree to admit 10% more students over the next few years? She says it would be similar to what's happening with the paris accords around climate change. But she asks if university presidents and vice provosts have too much incentive to keep their prestige as high as they can at the expense of potential beneficiaries of expanded supply. coontz: People respond to incentives, and so i wonder if there's just not too much private incentive there for them to keep prices low.

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