Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Universities and the Social Circuitry of Finance 1
5. 2. Our New Financial Oligarchy 17
6. 3. Bankers to the Rescue: The Political Turn to Student Debt 36
7. 4. The Top: How Universities Became Hedge Funds 54
8. 5. The Bottom: A Wall Street Takeover of For- Profit Colleges 76
9. 6. The Middle: A Hidden Squeeze on Public Universities 98
10. 7. Reimagining (Higher Education) Finance from Below 122
11. Methodological Appendix: A Comparative, Qualitative, and Quantitative Study of Elites 145
12. Notes 155
13. References 171
14. Index 189