Library Cards in China- Typical Rent Seeking Behaviour
Posted by w_thames_the_d on November 4, 2010
| A library card for the Beijing Capital Library costs 500RMB per person. This is equal to about 70U$. Many people here make from 1500-4000 per month. How many of them do you think, have a library card? |
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Daniel Bos said
What’s even more ridiculous, in my university, Chinese students can get a free library card, but we foreigners have to pay (hey, we’re all swimming in money, right?)