But in some ways the crisis of law schools goes well beyond the unsustainable economics.
Meanwhile, for the majority, real wages largely stagnated, and people were able to get by only by sharply increased workloads (far beyond Europe), unsustainable debt, and repeated bubbles since the Reagan years, creating paper wealth that inevitably disappeared when they burst (and the perpetrators were bailed out by the taxpayer).
A paradigm that does this has the capacity to stimulate ideas pointing beyond an unsustainable present.
The debt was sold to a consortium of private companies at under one-fifth of its value, but in reality these moves go far beyond the economically unsustainable nature of a credit-fuelled higher education system.
Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney were said to have used it to hear a variety of viewpoints, officials said, including lengthy descriptions from the Joint Chiefs about how the increase in forces is unsustainable beyond spring without extending the tours of forces already in Iraq.
In a letter to Lord Stevens obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Mr Winsor records his dismay at parts of the peer's report, which he describes as "beyond rational comprehension" and "plainly unsustainable".
Beyond that looms the unsustainable long-run debt trajectory.
"It is unsustainable and beyond what international humanitarian organisations can manage.
It would be unsustainable to grow beyond that rate without further changes in the structure of the economy".They can do it if they trySooner or later, though, if it wants to close the gap with Europe, Portugal will have to find a way of sustaining a higher growth rate.
The years leading up to the 2008 crisis were indeed marked by unsustainable borrowing, going far beyond the subprime loans many people still believe, wrongly, were at the heart of the problem.
