21%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education
Charles T. Clotfelter
€ 59.43
€ 46.71
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 334 pages, 28 line drawings, 66 tables. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
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 sciences at four elite institutions: Harvard, Duke, Chicago, and Carleton. He argues that the rise in costs has less to do with increasing faculty salaries or lowered productivity than with a ... Read more
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 sciences at four elite institutions: Harvard, Duke, Chicago, and Carleton. He argues that the rise in costs has less to do with increasing faculty salaries or lowered productivity than with a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691601366
SKU
V9780691601366
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education
"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
Contemporary Sociology