The volume begins with an Introduction, followed by a set of three papers in Part Two examining European urban competitiveness from the standpoints of measurement and policy. This section also provides a case study of the cities of one country - Italy - from which the reader can gain an...

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...