Mukul Kumar
Mukul Kumar is a doctoral researcher in City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. He holds an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge and his research interests are in political economy and public finance.
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The Financialization Of U.S. Higher Education
.The Financialization of U.S. Higher Education”, is available online here" Published in Socio-Economic Review, the study uses a unique new database an innovative theoretical framework for analyzing how non-profits, state agencies, and households have increasingly assumed multiple new roles in...
Do Poor Kids Deserve Lower-Quality Education Than Rich Kids?
This story was originally published by the Economic Policy Institute. Photo: Lauren Manning, Creative Commons, Some Rights Reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS Are charter schools better than public schools? Understanding Rocketship’s business model Good schools: What do we know about what works, and how...
Charlie Eaton
is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Merced. His research examines the role of organizations in the interplay between economic elites and disadvantaged social groups. His primary current research project investigates relationships between financialization and growing inequalities in U.S...
Debt and Society
Cyrus Dioun
Cyrus Dioun is a doctoral researcher at the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology. He has a M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University. His dissertation uses computational techniques and “big data” to map the emergence and transformation of markets.
Daniela García Santibáñez Godoy
Jacob Habinek
Jacob Habinek is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. His research focuses on the evolution of organizations and professions in sectors including natural science, medicine, and finance.
Borrowing Against The Future
Swapping Our Future
How Students and Taxpayers Are Funding Risky UC Borrowing and Wall Street Profits By Charlie Eaton, Jacob Habinek, Mukul Kumar Tamera Lee Stover, Alex Roehrkasse, and Jeremy Thompson The Berkeley Journal of Sociology version of this article is available here. TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary...