The Economics of Education

This book critically identifies and evaluates neoliberal policy and its impacts on schooling/ education in the Rich World. Chapters ask â ˜What Neoliberal Changes have taken place (e.g. privatisation, vouchers, marketisation, commercialization, school fees, new brutalist public managerialism, and the the assault on the comprehensive / common school principle and on democratic control of schools) and identify neoliberal `Driversâ ™ or Levers - national / transnational corporations, think tanks, pressure groups, state power, ideologies/ discourses. The contributors examine the impacts on equality, equal opportunities and access (social class; `raceâ ™/ ethnic/ linguistic groups; gender, rural/urban differentiation); democracy/ critical thinking; and the pay and conditions of education workers in England and Wales, USA, Australia, Canada, Finland, Portugal, Greece, Singapore and Japan.

Since the first edition of this book in 1987, it has been widely recognized as a comprehensive and definitive text on the economics of the welfare state its efficiency, its fairness, and its relevance to the whole population, not just to the poor.