# An op-ed by Prof. William Baumol on achieving affordable higher education

1 Faculty News June 7, 2012 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/kauffman/2012/06/07/innovation-productivity-affordable-higher-ed/) -- "Contrary to appearances, we can afford more and better education, ever more ample health care, adequate support of the indigent, and a growing abundance of pri-vate comforts and luxuries. That we cannot afford all of these is an illusion ... "

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