The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education: Introduction to a Symposium Charles T. Clotfelter (pp. 3-12)
Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education Gordon C. Winston (pp. 13-36)
The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940 Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (pp. 37-62)
The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin between College and Work Thomas J. Kane and Cecilia Elena Rouse (pp. 63-84)
Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator Ronald G. Ehrenberg (pp. 99-116)
Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets Martin Gaynor and Deborah Haas-Wilson (pp. 141-164)
Asymmetric Information and Public Economics: The Mirrlees-Vickrey Nobel Prize Agnar Sandmo (pp. 165-180)