Sold My Soul for a Student Loan: Higher Education and the Political Economy of the Future

Daniel T. Kirschauthor

Daniel T. Kirsch, PhD, is an author who earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and now teachers at California State University, Sacramento.

Sold My Soul for a Student Loan: Higher Education and the Political Economy of the Future

20190430

Praeger

Pages	200
Topics	Politics, Law, and Government;Current Events and Issues: Education;2008 Financial Crisis;Consumer Debt Policy;Corporatization/Commodification;Critical Political Theory;Debt and the Labor Market;Financialization of Higher Education;Generational Politics (Baby Boomers and Millennials);Higher Education Policy;Housing Policy;Labor Unions;Neoliberalism;"Occupy Wall Street";Political Activism

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9781440850721

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With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the "American Dream," this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both higher education—and our democracy.

• Examines both the causes of student debt and its implications for our democracy

• Offers a 360-degree view of student debt from the perspective of students, graduates, policymakers, political activists, journalists, administrators, and college/university faculty

• Provides a context for how student debt was created as a phenomenon much more complex than generational culture

• Shows there is new hope in the form of a significant, multifaceted movement advocating for student debtors; and that government and banks are responding with new actions and programs

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