Sold My Soul for a Student Loan : Higher Education and the Political Economy of the Future / Daniel T. Kirsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirsch, Daniel T., author.

Kirsch, Daniel (Daniel T.), author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debt--United States.

Debt.

College graduates--United States--Finance, Personal.

College graduates.

College costs--United States.

College costs.

Student loans--United States.

Student loans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 179 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Westport, CT : Praeger, 2019.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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. American higher education boasts one of the most impressive legacies in the world, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt. As this book shows, increasing educational indebtedness undermines the real value of higher education in our democracy. To help readers understand this dilemma, the book examines how student debt became commonplace and what the long-term effects of such an ongoing reality might be. Sold My Soul for a Student Loan examines this vitally important issue from an unprecedented diversity of perspectives, focusing on the fact that student debt is hindering the ability of millions of people to enter the job market, the housing market, the consumer economy, and the political process. Among other topics, the book covers the history of consumer debt in the United States, the history of federal policy toward higher education, and political action in response to the issue of student debt. Perhaps most importantly, it explores the new relationship debtor-citizens have to the government as a result of debt, and how that impacts democracy for a new generation.

Contents:

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 The American Debtor as Worker, Consumer, and Citizen Chapter 2 The Ideology of Homeowner Democracy and Trust in Government Chapter 3 The Government's Creation and Destruction of the American University Chapter 4 Responses to the Crisis: The New Debtor Movements Chapter 5 The Sin of Debt and the Hope of Forgiveness in the Twenty-First Century Notes Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216016328

9798216146728

9781440850721

1440850720

OCLC:

1082298781