This reminds me of the time I read Smith in a grad seminar. I mention the reading offhandedly to my mentor, the economist. His response: Do they know the REAL Adam Smith?
That’s a good question for us all. Do we know the real Adam Smith?
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Not Our Kind of People: Why No One Talks To For-Profit Students
Just as I was reading the latest newsflash from NCES on today’s data release on higher ed employees and student aid, my e-mentor Sara Goldrick-Rab of UW-Madison was already tweeting the juiciest tidbits: The net price difference among two years is also reported: But Sara’s question of “Why?” is what I want to focus on.Read More “Not Our Kind of People: Why No One Talks To For-Profit Students”
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The Logic of ‘Dumb’ Investments in Curly Hair
My friends over at Racialicious tweeted a link to an interesting story from New York Magazine: In the article author Kevin Roose takes aim at the unrestrained enthusiasm among venture capitalists for “dumb” internet investments. Kevin’s ideal form of this stupidity can be summed up, apparently, in one site in particular: But Silicon Valley, likeRead More “The Logic of ‘Dumb’ Investments in Curly Hair”