| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 233 pages) |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Good intentions and wasted brainpower: the first student loan mess -- Disillusionment and deadbeats: the second student loan mess -- Outrage and crushing debt: the third student loan mess -- Dread and the for-profit bubble: the fourth student loan mess -- What's next? Prospective student loan messes -- Beyond making messes? |
| Summary |
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 concerns about deadbeat students, crushing debt, exploitative for-profit colleges, and changing attitudes about the purpose of college education to. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Student loans -- United States.
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Student loans -- Government policy -- United States.
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College graduates -- United States -- Finance, Personal.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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College graduates -- Finance, Personal.
(OCoLC)fst00867836
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Student loans. (OCoLC)fst01431545
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Student loans -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst01431553
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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| Added Author |
Best, Eric, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Best, Joel. Student Loan Mess. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014 9780520276451 |
| ISBN |
9780520958449 (electronic bk.) |
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0520958446 (electronic bk.) |
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