Economics of Education - Hardcover

Dominic J. Brewer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 008096530X ISBN 13: 9780080965307

Publisher: Elsevier, 2009

Synopsis

This anthology of recent discipline summaries presents an authoritative, topical resource about the economics of education.  Fifty chapters describe major and minor subjects within theory and empirics, returns to investments in human capital, financing, production, labor, and incentives.  The collection provides international perspectives that describe the origins of these subjects, their major issues and proponents, their landmark studies, and opportunities for future research.  

Published with an introduction written especially for this volume, these articles come from the International Encyclopedia of Education 3rd edition (2010), edited by Eva Baker, Barry McGaw,and Penelope Peterson.  The Encyclopedia contains over 1,350 articles in 24 sections that stretch from educational philosophies and technologies to measurement, leadership, and national systems of education

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Review:

This collection of 50 chapters from the International Encyclopedia of Education, 3e, provides essential information about the field and is an excellent reference for anyone that researches or teaches education topics using economic concepts

About this edition

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 008096530X
• ISBN 13: 9780080965307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Dominic J. Brewer Professor, Patrick J. McEwan Professor