This book analyzes the political economy of higher education finance across a range of OECD countries, exploring why some students pay extortionate tuition fees

Americans now obtain college degrees at a higher rate than at any time in recent decades in the hopes of improving their career prospects. At the same time, the

A “bracing and well-argued” study of America’s college debt crisis—“necessary reading for anyone concerned about the fate of American higher education

College tuition has risen more rapidly than the overall inflation rate for much of the past century. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the highe

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of the Fee, a not