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Bowen, William G., Martin Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin. 2005.Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Brint, Steven. 2002. “The Rise of the Practical Arts.” In Steven Brint, ed.The Future of the City of Intellect. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Brint, Steven. 2005. “Creating the Future: ‘New’ Directions in American Research Universities”Minerva: 23–50.
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. 2000.Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2001. “Decreasing (and Then Increasing) Inequality in America:, A Tale of Two Half-Centuries.” In Finis Welch, ed.,The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality, 37–82. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hoxby, Caroline M. 1997. “How the Changing Market Structure of U.S. Higher Education Explains College Tuition.” NBER Working Paper No. 6323.
Murphy, Kevin, and Finis Welch. 2001. “Wage Differentials in the 1990s: Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty.” In Finis Welch, ed.,The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 341–74.
St. John, Edward P. 2003.Refinancing the College Dream: Access, Equal Opportunity, and Justice for Taxpayers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University and Head of the Higher Education Program. He is author of Knowledge and Money: Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace (2004)
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Geiger, R.L. Real crisis or unpleasant realities?. Soc 43, 35–40 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687533
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