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the G-man said:
Lawrence Tribe, Alan Dershowitz and/or Carl Sagan (to name just three college professors) probably make/made as much or more than Buchanan and/or Coulter.

So why wouldn't Pat and Ann want the additional benefit of the academic position?



Carl Sagan is dead, so he doesn't make anything. Alan Dershowitz derives a sizable piece of his compensation from book sales, consulting fees, etc. not his salary from Harvard. Had he opted for a partnership at Cravath, Swaine & Moore he would probably be a far wealthier man today. While the average salary for a tenured professor at Harvard is about $160M (AAUP Salary survey 2004-05) nation wide a law professor makes closer to $112M. Law is the highest paid academic discipline. Full professors in other fields make $85M on average. What's the starting salary of a junior associate at a large law firm? The people you mentioned are 'stars' in their field and derive extra income from non-academic activities. They are hardly representative of the academic community as a whole.

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