Why does college cost so much? / [electronic resource] Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman. Archibald, Robert B., 1946- Feldman, David Henry. College costs United States. Education, Higher United States Finance. LB2342 378.380973 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. College tuition has risen more rapidly than the overall inflation rate for much of the past century. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic history of the United States. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource (xii, 289 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744503.001.0001 eng United States. United States