The Student Aid Game: Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education (Revised)Paperback - Revised, 3 January 1999

In The Student Aid Game, Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Shapiro explain how both colleges and governments are struggling to cope with a rapidly changing marketplace, and show how sound policies can help preserve the strengths and remedy some emerging weaknesses of American higher education. Of particular interest is the issue of merit aid. McPherson and Schapiro consider the attractions and pitfalls of merit aid from the viewpoint of students, institutions, and society.