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Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Charles T. Clotfelter
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| Series | National Bureau of Economic Research Publications |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:334 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691601366
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| Classifications | Dewey:378.106 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
28 line drawings, 66 tables
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
14 July 2014 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the economic factors that are in fact driving the institutions that have been described as machines without brakes. In d
Reviews"Charles Clotfelter, an economist and former vice provost and vice chancellor at Duke University, examines the explanations for the rapid growth in spending in the nation's leading private research universities since 1976-77 ... Buying the Best is a thought-provoking and compelling analysis, with implications well beyond its focus on higher education."--Contemporary Sociology
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