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A Quarter Century of Neoliberal Thinking in Education: Misleading Analyses and Failed Policies.
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Neoclassical economics focuses on the efficiency of a free market system and the associated role of the public sector as mentioned in this paper, and it has been around for over a century, with antecedent...Abstract:
Neoclassical economics focuses on the efficiency of a free‐market system and the associated role of the public sector. As a school of thought, it has been around for over a century, with antecedent...read more
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Education of development: an Analysis of investment choices∗
TL;DR: Psacharopoulos and Woodhall as discussed by the authors, A World Bank Publication by Oxford University Press (1985), £9.95, ISBN 0-19 520478-6, p.
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When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale
Bill J. Johnston,Kaye Pepper +1 more
TL;DR: Fiske and Ladd as discussed by the authors provided a detailed data-based analysis of New Zealand's nationwide change from a state run education system to locally run schools using market principles in the delivery of public education.
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The struggle for the soul of teaching and teacher education in the USA
TL;DR: The authors discusses changes over the last 40 years in teacher education in the USA that have resulted in two very different strategies for improving the preparation of teachers and in substantial inequities in the distribution of the teaching force.
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The mechanics of economic development
Abstract: This paper considers the prospects for constructing a neoclassical theory of growth and international trade that is consistent with some of the main features of economic development. Three models are considered and compared to evidence: a model emphasizing physical capital accumulation and technological change, a model emphasizing human capital accumulation through schooling, and a model emphasizing specialized human capital accumulation through learning-by-doing.
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On the mechanics of economic development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the prospects for constructing a neoclassical theory of growth and international trade that is consistent with some of the main features of economic development, and compare three models and compared to evidence.
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Globalization and Its Discontents
TL;DR: The promise of global institutions broken promises freedom to choose, the East Asia crisis - how IMF policies brought the world to the verge of a global meltdown who lost Russia? unfair trade laws and other better roads to the market the IMF's other agenda the way ahead.
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The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out that public and professional interest in education is likely to be short-lived, doomed to dissipate as frustration over the inability of policy to improve school practice sets in.