Schooling, Labor-force Quality, and the Growth of Nations // The American Economic Review. 2004. Vol. 90. No. 5. PP. 1184-1208. Translated from the English by E. Pokatovich.

The author discusses an idea of composing a list of "100 books of Higher School of Economics" as a university canon for a reader and analyzes a long-term publishing project of the Russian Christian Humanitarian Institute called "The Russian way".

The concepts of cultural literacy, its present-day content and quality are dramatically changing. Language as a formalized semiotic system and set of norms, and literature as a culturally privileged segment of the national verbal heritage certainly must be known and treated with due reverence....

Anna Sanina, Ph.D. in Sociology, Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration, National Research University - Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, Head of the Research and Study Group on the Economics and Sociology of Change. Email:...

Based on the data obtained by Yuri Levada Analytical CenterNatalya Bondarenko, senior researcher in the Living Standards Department of Levada Center, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: nut@levada.ru Address: 17 Nikolskaya St., Moscow, 109012, Russian Federation.Using results of annual polls of...

Forty years have passed since one major social upheaval that occurred in many Western countries. It laid the foundations for a new culture and changed the education system all over the world. An international diary of the student protests in 1968 and a calendar of the events helps re"create the...