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Making College More Expensive: The Unintended Consequences of Federal Tuition Aid. Policy Analysis. No. 531
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Wolfram, Gary – Cato Institute, 2005
As Congress debates the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), it should heed Friedrich Hayek's warning that democracy is "peculiarly liable, if not guided by accepted common principles, to produce over-all results that nobody wanted." One result of the federal government's student financial aid programs is higher tuition costs at the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Government, Student Financial Aid, Tuition