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Wolf, Alison - 2011

Throughout the developed and developing worlds, education spending is seen as a key tool for government policy makers in the quest for economic growth. Promoting 'human capital' development is a prime objective for economic and education ministries. The seminal articles discussed in this...

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Economics, competition and academia : an intellectual history of sophism versus virtue

Stabile, Donald - 2007

1. Introduction : markets, competition, and higher education -- 2. Sophism, academia, and Greek economics -- 3. Adam Smith and sophism : reaction to the endowment model -- 4. Virtue and early academia in the US -- 5. Academia and the rise of capitalism in the US -- 6. Corporate capitalism and...

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New directions in the economics of higher education

Woessmann, Ludger (ed.); Bettinger, Eric (ed.) - 2020

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (2008), 'The Race between Education and Technology', in The Race between Education and Technology, Chapter 8, Appendix D.1, [notes and references], London, UK and Massachusetts, USA: Harvard University Press,...

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The economics of the apprenticeship system

Smits, Wendy; Stromback, Thorsten - 2001

The past ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in the apprenticeship system of industrial training. Employers have been shown to carry a large part of the cost of essentially general training with apparent little return to the firm - a problem which has generated a wide range of literature...

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The economic institutions of higher education : economic theories of university behavior

Raines, J. Patrick; Leathers, Charles G. - 2003

Working within the context of the evolutionary-institutional transformation of higher education, the authors trace the development of an economic model by which the behavioral tendencies of modern universities can be evaluated. That model is expanded to provide insights to the following...

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Not only an economist : recent essays by Mark Blaug

Blaug, Mark - 1997

Mark Blaug has with good reason been described as the most widely read economist of his generation. He has made important contributions to economic history, cultural economics, the history of economic thought, the methodology of economics and the economics of education. Not Only an Economist...

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Cost control, college access, and competition in higher education

Martin, Robert Eugene - 2005

Quality has never been more important for the future of higher education and the economy than it is today. Unfortunately, the decline in student quality is accompanied by costs that are out of control, a governance system that will not permit any reallocation of resources, and a society that...

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The silicon dragon : high-tech industry in Taiwan

Tsai, Terence - 2006

success story of the microelectronics industry in Taiwan. The book examines the government policies that acted as catalysts to … the growth of high-tech industries in Taiwan, along with the roles of high-tech "incubators" and government … Taiwan / Soo-Hung Terence Tsai and Chang-hui Zhou -- Macronix International Co. Ltd (MXIC) / Chin-kang Jen -- The model of …

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The impact of the economic crisis on East Asia : policy responses from four economies

Liu, Bih Jane (contributor); Shaw, Daigee (contributor) - 2011

Written by a distinguished group of Asian social scientists, this study summarizes and synthesizes the economic impacts of the crisis on individual countries and their policy response since 2008, and in particular carefully scrutinizes the immediate and remote causes of the crisis. It not only...

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Patents and the measurement of international competitiveness : new data on the use of patents by universities, small firms, and individual inventors

Kingston, William - 2006

This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to...

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