There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...

Higher education in the era of globalization and neoliberalism / Joyce E. Canaan and Wesley Shumar -- Managing knowledge: intellectual property, instructional design and the manufacturing of higher education / Jonathan T. Church -- Public good or private value: a critique of the commodification...