Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator
作者探讨了用效用最大化框架分析大学是否有效，指出大学组织方式几乎注定该模型不适用，并结合康奈尔大学的资源分配案例，反思经济学概念在决策中的帮助与局限。
The author asks whether it is useful to view universities in a utility-maximizing framework and shows that university organizing virtually guarantees that the utility-maximizing model is the incorrect approach. He then discusses resource allocation issues at Cornell and reflects upon how concepts that are obvious to economists helped or hindered decision making at Cornell. The author hopes to convey not that economic concepts are irrelevant in operating a university, but rather that it takes a long time to explain to all the actors in the system why these concepts should matter and even longer to actually make them matter.