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The podcast hosted author Charlie Eaton, an associate professor of sociology, who introduced his book, Bankers in the Ivory Tower. Eaton explained that the text investigates the troubling rise of financiers in U.S. higher education and society more broadly. He emphasized the connection between this trend and increasing inequalities found both within universities and across the larger economy.
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The author explained that this book is about the rise of financiers in higher education and in U.S. society more broadly. They discussed how inequalities in higher education and in the larger economy are connected.
I'm an associate professor of sociology at UC Merced, and I am the author of the book Bankers in the Ivory Tower.
It's a book about the rise of financiers in higher education and in U.S. society more largely and how inequalities in higher ed and in our larger economy are connected.