January 3, 2013
Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive? You thought the rising cost of college tuition was bad? Then check out the rising cost of college textbooks. The American Enterprise Institute’s Mark Perry has put together this chart showing the egregious, 812 percent rise in the cost of course materials since 1978, as captured in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s consumer price index data. The price of all those Intro to Sociology and Calculus books have shot up faster than health-care, home prices, and, of course, inflation. Read more.

Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive?

You thought the rising cost of college tuition was bad? Then check out the rising cost of college textbooks. The American Enterprise Institute’s Mark Perry has put together this chart showing the egregious, 812 percent rise in the cost of course materials since 1978, as captured in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s consumer price index data. The price of all those Intro to Sociology and Calculus books have shot up faster than health-care, home prices, and, of course, inflation.

Read more.

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    A partir de esta imagen que he conseguido en la Red y en la que podemos ver como en Estados Unidos el aumento del coste...
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    reblogging again to marinate on this.
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    College isn’t worth a life debt.
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    and i thought that the back of yo head was ridiculous….
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    No wonder my Stats book is a $170.
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    So true!
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