Author:
Archibald, Robert B., 1946-
Imprint:Oxford, [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxii, 289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:The landscape of the college cost debate -- Is higher education all that unusual? -- Higher education is a service -- The costs of employing highly educated workers -- Cost and quality in higher education -- The bottom line : why does college cost so much? -- Is higher education increasingly dysfunctional? -- Productivity growth in higher education -- Subsidies and tuition setting -- List-price tuition and institutional grants -- Outside financial aid -- The college affordability crisis -- Federal policy and college tuition -- Financial aid policy -- Rewriting the relationship between states and their public universities -- A few final observations.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index.
