The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem

by Joel Best and Eric Best

Book Overview

This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team--one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher--probes how we've reached the point at which student loan debt--now exceeding $1 trillion and predicted to reach $2 trillion by 2020--threatens to become the sequel to the mortgage meltdown. In spite of their good intentions, Americans have allowed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520276450
• ISBN13: 9780520276451
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"