"Observations, such as the many celebrated inventive entrepreneurs with minimal schooling, lead to the hypothesis that protracted and rigorous education can impede entrepreneurship. Systematic analysis of biographies of noted inventors and entrepreneurs appears not to support the hypothesis. We...

The paper offers reasons indicating that the spillovers from innovation activity are surprisingly large; and argues that individuals who have invested directly or indirectly in the economy's innovation processes can be estimated, conservatively, to obtain less than ten percent of the total...

Assessing Educational Practices introduces the nonspecialist to the research methods used by economists in studies of education practices and the institutions and markets in which education takes place. The ten chapters, all commissioned for this book, explain the way economists think about...