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Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues

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Are You Hopeless That They Will Implement Education Austerity?

The main reason that I'm skeptical about this is even in states where the state government is very right-wing. It seems that the prestige of the state university systems is sufficiently high that politicians generally don't want to challenge it. The main change that I could least plausibly see is precisely defunding the least popular departments, while saying we're going to keep the total budget of the school the same.

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