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Clark, Robert L. (contributor); Ma, Jennifer (contributor) - Edward Elgar

This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. Contributors discuss topics such as: ageing of faculty, changing economic conditions and shifts in faculty employment patterns, rapid increases in health care costs and trends...

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International Aid and Private Schools for the Poor

Dixon, Pauline - Edward Elgar

-profit schools might serve as a successful alternative to state-run systems of education in impoverished communities around the world. …

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Handbook of Universities and Regional Development

Varga, Attila (contributor); Erdős, Katalin (contributor) - Edward Elgar

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The Legacy of Milton Friedman as Teacher

Hammond, J. D. (contributor) - Edward Elgar

Milton Friedman is beyond question the most famous living economist of the 20th century. He is closely associated with the doctrine of ‘monetarism’ which has been adopted by many governments around the world.

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Education and Economic Performance

Wolf, Alison (contributor); McNally, Sandra (contributor) - Edward Elgar

Throughout the developed and developing worlds, education spending is seen as a key tool for government policy makers … in the quest for economic growth. Promoting ‘human capital’ development is a prime objective for economic and education … ministries. The seminal articles in this essential volume include early classics which explain why education became central to …

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Financing Public Schools

Alexander, Kern; Salmon, Richard G. - Edward Elgar

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CARL MENGER’S LECTURES TO CROWN PRINCE RUDOLF OF AUSTRIA

Streissler, Erich W. (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

In 1876, Carl Menger, then a young professor at the University of Vienna, was asked to teach the principles of political economy to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, the 17 year old only son of Emperor Francis Joseph, who was to die tragically before he could inherit the throne.

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The Economic Dynamics of Modern Biotechnology

McKelvey, Maureen (contributor); Rickne, Annika (contributor) - Edward Elgar

This book offers a novel insight into the economic dynamics of modern biotechnology, using examples from Europe to reflect global trends. The authors apply theoretical insight to a fundamental enigma of the modern learning society, namely, how and why the development of knowledge and ideas...

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The Economic Theory of Invention and Innovation

Link, Albert N. (contributor) - Edward Elgar

This comprehensive collection presents the classic articles in the economics of invention and innovation. It covers topics related to sources of inventive and innovative activity, including exogenous and endogenous innovation, with an emphasis on R&D activity and the diffusion of new techniques....

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Recent Developments in the Economics of Science and Innovation

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This volume presents the most important contributions of the last decade in the fields of science and innovation, demonstrating the key relationship between the two.

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