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UNINA9910967805203321 |
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Autore |
Grubb W. Norton |
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Titolo |
The education gospel : the economic power of schooling / / W. Norton Grubb, Marvin Lazerson |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
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9780674264090 |
0674264096 |
9780674037984 |
0674037987 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 322 p. ) : ill |
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Education - Economic aspects - United States |
Vocational education - United States |
Education - Effect of technological innovations on |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2004. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-308) and index. |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910956690403321 |
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Autore |
Laeven Luc |
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Titolo |
A Reader in International Corporate Finance, 1 |
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Washington, : World Bank Publications, 2006 |
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9786610547739 |
9781280547737 |
1280547731 |
9780821366998 |
0821366998 |
9781429402132 |
142940213X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (418 p.) |
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Corporations |
Corporations - Finance |
International finance |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; VOLUME I. PART I. LAW AND FINANCE; VOLUME I. PART II. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; VOLUME I. PART III. BANKING; INDEX |
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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 |
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