The study of public finance—the role government in the economy—has faded geography as attention to private finance has grown. Disrupting tendency fetishize financial power, this article proposes an expanded conception that emphasizes its shaping geographies inequality. We conceptualize relationship between and a dynamic interface characterized today by asymmetrical power relations, path-depende...

A model is developed which allows us to examine the welfare effects of alternative methods of financing access to higher education. Under an extreme specification of the social welfare function, it is shown that it does not matter whether higher education is financed privately or through the exchequer. Under a more general specification of the social welfare function, conditions may be derived ...