Caroline’s Macroeconomics college textbook came in the mail today. Not from some overpriced publisher but as a used book another student no longer needed and was smart enough to part with. What a horrible disservice to our nation’s ability to rise up from ignorance, that the required materials for an advanced education are a huge profit center for corporations. Harry Potter will sell for as little as $17 while this Macroeconomics textbook lists at $121.95 (88 Euro, 59 Pounds, 14,790 Yen, or 4,900 Rupees that is 300 Rupees more than the average monthly income in India), oh but wait, the book has recently been discounted and is now only $85.36 at Amazon.com – I’ll take two.