Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Universities and the Social Circuitry of Finance
2. Our New Financial Oligarchy
3. Bankers to the Rescue: The Political Turn to Student Debt
4. The Top: How Universities Became Hedge Funds
5. The Bottom: A Wall Street Takeover of For- Profit Colleges
6. The Middle: A Hidden Squeeze on Public Universities
7. Reimagining (Higher Education) Finance from Below
Methodological Appendix: A Comparative, Qualitative, and Quantitative Study of Elites
Notes
References
Index