Doing More with Less

1. Introduction: The American Higher Education Problem
Richard Vedder

2. Financial Aid in Theory and Practice
Andrew Gillen

3. Price Discrimination and Rising Costs: Is There Any Relationship?
Gregory Randolph

4. Cost Inflation in Intercollegiate Athletics: And Some Modest Proposals for Controlling It
William Shughart

5. The Academics–Athletics Trade-Off: Universities and Intercollegiate Athletics
Matthew Denhart, Robert Villwock, Richard Vedder

6. For-Profit Education in the USA: A Primer
James Coleman, Richard Vedder

7. A Market-Funded College’s Approach to Student Learning and Job Placement: An Insider’s View
John Woods

8. The Economics of For-Profit Education
Tyler Cowen, Sam Papenfuss

9. Getting It Right: Where University Systems Lose Information in Designing Programs
Justin M. Ross

10. Managing the Internal Organization of Colleges and Universities
Matthew Holian, Justin M. Ross

11. Privatize It: Outsourcing and Privatization in Higher Education
Carrie B. Kerekes

12. Improving Higher Education Using the Principles of Market-Based Management®

Gavin Romm, Edward Stringham

13. A Tale of Two Partners: How Specialization and Division of Labor Are Reshaping the Academy
G. Dirk Mateer

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Economic Policy, Educational Policy and Politics, Higher Education