Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Us Higher Education by Eaton, Charlie
Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Us Higher Education by Eaton, Charlie

Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Us Higher Education

Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America. Elite colleges have long...
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Author: Charlie Eaton
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Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Us Higher Education by Eaton, Charlie

Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Us Higher Education

$86.40
Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Us Higher Education by Eaton, Charlie

Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in Us Higher Education

$86.40
Author: Charlie Eaton
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America.

Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America while public universities have offered a major stepping-stone to new economic opportunities. However, as Charlie Eaton reveals in Bankers in the Ivory Tower, finance has played a central role in the widening inequality in recent decades, both in American higher education and in American society at large.

With federal and state funding falling short, the US higher education system has become increasingly dependent on financial markets and the financiers that mediate them. Beginning in the 1980s, the government, colleges, students, and their families took on multiple new roles as financial investors, borrowers, and brokers. The turn to finance, however, has yielded wildly unequal results. At the top, ties to Wall Street help the most elite private schools achieve the greatest endowment growth through hedge fund investments and the support of wealthy donors. At the bottom, takeovers by private equity transform for-profit colleges into predatory organizations that leave disadvantaged students with massive loan debt and few educational benefits. And in the middle, public universities are squeezed between incentives to increase tuition and pressures to maintain access and affordability. Eaton chronicles these transformations, making clear for the first time just how tight the links are between powerful financiers and America's unequal system of higher education.

Author: Charlie Eaton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 02/25/2022
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.22w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780226720425

About the Author
Charlie Eaton is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced.
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