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And schools are just a subsidy for the textbook industry. Regulation & incentives are literally the tools governments have to shape policy. It's a start, but
by gtowey 3y ago
And schools are just a subsidy for the textbook industry.
Regulation & incentives are literally the tools governments have to shape policy. It's a start, but moving the needle on issues can be hard, slow work -- especially when it seems like so many people have the attitude that if a particular action wasn't the their perfect, preferred solution, then it shouldn't have been done at all.
- hedora 3y agoIn your analogy, the vendors are the people manufacturing textbooks that are mandatory, but never get opened and cannot be resold on the used market. The regulators are the administrators (or whoever) that require the useless textbooks. Of course, there are many useful textbooks with none of the above properties, but they don’t require complicated incentive structures to ensure they’re made mandatory.