The student loan debacle… is it the next bubble on the horizon?
Prof. Joel Best is a professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, where his research has focused on deviance and social problems in American society He is the former president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the former editor of the journal Social Problems. He has written many books dealing with violence, the problems and lies of statistics, cultural fads and the future of American education. Prof. Best received his Masters and doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.
His most recent book co-written with his son Eric, a former banker and now assistant professor at Jacksonville State University is “The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion Dollar Problem.” The website is StudentLoanMess.com and JoelBest.net