The Higher Education Bubble (Encounter Broadside) - Softcover

Reynolds, Glenn Harlan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594036659 ISBN 13: 9781594036651

Publisher: Encounter Books, 2012

Synopsis

America is facing a higher education bubble. Like the housing bubble, it is the product of cheap credit coupled with popular expectations of ever-increasing returns on investment, and as with housing prices, the cheap credit has caused college tuitions to vastly outpace inflation and family incomes. Now this bubble is bursting.

In this Broadside, Glenn Harlan Reynolds explains the causes and effects of this bubble and the steps colleges and universities must take to ensure their survival. Many graduates are unable to secure employment sufficient to pay off their loans, which are usually not dischargeable in bankruptcy. As students become less willing to incur debt for education, colleges and universities will have to adapt to a new world of cost pressures and declining public support.

About this title

About the Author:

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. He writes for such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, Popular Mechanics, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Examiner. He blogs at InstaPundit.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1594036659
• ISBN 13: 9781594036651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56