Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education

by Charles T. Clotfelter

Book Overview

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 designing his study, Charles Clotfelter examines the escalation in spending in the arts and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691601364
• ISBN13: 9780691601366
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"