1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967805203321

Autore

Grubb W. Norton

Titolo

The education gospel : the economic power of schooling / / W. Norton Grubb, Marvin Lazerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

9780674264090

0674264096

9780674037984

0674037987

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 322 p. ) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

LazersonMarvin

Disciplina

338.4/737

Soggetti

Education - Economic aspects - United States

Vocational education - United States

Education - Effect of technological innovations on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface Introduction: Believers and Dissenters 1 Transforming the High School 2 Professionalism in Higher Education 3 Dilemmas of the Community College 4 Second Chances in Job Training and Adult Education 5 The American Approach to Vocationalism 6 The Public and Private Benefits of Schooling 7 The Ambiguities of Separating Schooling and Work 8 The Evolution of Inequality 9 Vocationalism and the Education Gospel in the Twenty-First Century Notes References Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this hard-hitting history of 'the gospel of education', the authors reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems - and that the central purpose of education is workplace preparation.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956690403321

Autore

Laeven Luc

Titolo

A Reader in International Corporate Finance, 1

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : World Bank Publications, 2006

ISBN

9786610547739

9781280547737

1280547731

9780821366998

0821366998

9781429402132

142940213X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Disciplina

658.15

Soggetti

Corporations

Corporations - Finance

International finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; VOLUME I. PART I. LAW AND FINANCE; VOLUME I. PART II. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; VOLUME I. PART III. BANKING; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

A Reader in International Corporate Finance offers an overview of current thinking on six topics: law and finance, corporate governance, banking, capital markets, capital structure and financing constraints, and the political economy of finance. This collection of 23 of the most influential articles published in the period 2000-2006 reflects two new trends:interest in international aspects of corporate finance, particularly specific to emerging markets, awareness of the importance of institutions in explaining global differences in corporate finance.""In the last decade, financial economists