The efficiency savings of academia occur downstream from the activities of the universities themselves. Indeed, universities may be the most consistently performing products of long-term capital investment, especially if one is inclined to think about social and economic “investment” in exactly the same terms.
如果大学要保持博洛尼亚律师们最初勾勒的大学本色，那么答案是否定的。而且这与对经济学的侮辱无关。 学术界的增效节支恰恰来自于大学的各项活动本身。 事实上，大学或许是长期资本投资领域效率最高的产品，特别是当我们把社会和经济“投资”放在同等条件下考量时更是如此。