Three pieces on universities worth reading.
1/ Cutler + Glaeser paper on unis as organisational form. TLDR; a weird hybrid of academic entrepreneurs battling with centralising bureaucrats; incredibly successful, but also internalises a lot of conflict.
www.nber.org/papers/w35079
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