Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment… : DASH Story 2014-02-09
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Im an economist and political scientist and I was very saddened by the death of Aaron Swartz. This reminds me of his work and unfortunate death.
Indeed the principle of keeping knowledge bifurcated around the world is terrible. One thing that elite schools outside the US had was the fact that if you had wealth AND went to a good school, you could afford the exorbitant cost of textbooks. To be honest, though it does keep faculty active and with some sort of alternative profit motive at G7 schools, it makes education very expensive everywhere else. In local currency, imagine how much those 100 USD textbooks cost the average student at most universities.
I KNOW that we all write and teach for a living and its necessary to make education as open and accessible as possible. Lest make textbooks, and their inaccessibility a thing of the past.
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