Unprofitable Schooling

Author : Todd J. Zywicki
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 1948647052
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Unprofitable Schooling written by Todd J. Zywicki and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most economies advance by simultaneously decreasing costs and increasing quality. Unfortunately, when it comes to higher education, this has been turned on its head. Costs keep rising while quality declines. How has this happened? What can be done? This exceptional volume looks at the issues facing higher education from the perspective of both economics and history. Each chapter explores how the lessons learned from market competition in other sectors of the economy can be applied to higher education in order to bring about innovation, improved quality, and lower costs. The opening section offers a history of for-profit education before the Morrill Act—the federal legislation that funded land-grant universities; reviews the Act’s impact; and concludes with an exploration of federal student aid and how it prevents new funding options from entering the market. Section two examines higher education as it stands today—what is driving up college prices; tenure; administrative bloat; and university governance. And, the concluding third section shows how robust competition in higher education can be energized, and takes a deep look at for-profit vs. non-profit institutions. Unprofitable Schooling provides a sober and informative assessment of the state of higher education, critically covering historical assumptions, increasing government involvement, reflexive aversion to profit, and other, maybe unexpected, conclusions.

Author : Neal McCluskey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948647045
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Unprofitable Schooling written by Neal McCluskey and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive assessment of higher education that is not reflexively critical of something that has proven crucial to human flourishing: profit.

Author : Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia written by Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Family's Defender Magazine and Educational Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexandros Mourmouras
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031364376
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book US Economic Policy in the 21st Century written by Alexandros Mourmouras and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses major economic problems affecting the United States and proposes policy reforms to target them. The authors use a broad survey of economic research to conduct an evidence-based assessment of four economic issues affecting the US and other developed nations: slowing economic growth, unsustainable public debt increases, widening wage inequality, and climate change. Finding that the problems are interconnected and should be dealt with in a comprehensive manner, the authors explain how current policies have contributed to the issues and make recommendations on policy reforms. All four issues are examined in one place and the resulting policy recommendations form a consistent plan to mediate the problems simultaneously. Providing a comprehensive approach to some of economic policy’s most difficult problems, this book will be an excellent resource for students and researchers interested in macroeconomic theory, public sector economics, international economics, labor economics, and environmental economics.

Author : Karl Wennberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030942732
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Questioning the Entrepreneurial State written by Karl Wennberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-23 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have made the authorities to increasingly turn inward and use ethnocentrism, protectionism, and top-down approaches to guide policy on trade, competition, and industrial development. The continuing aftereffects of such policies range from the rise and seeming success of authoritarian states, rise of populist and protectionist trends, and evolving academic agendas inspiring the reemergence of top-down industrial policies across the world. This open access edited volume contains contributions from over 30 scholars with expertise in economics, innovation, management, and economic history. The chapters offer unique theoretical and empirical contributions discussing topics such as how industrial policies affect risk, incentives, and information for investments. They also address the policy perspectives on new technologies such as AI and its implications for market entry, the role for independent entrepreneurship in increasingly regulated markets, and whether governments should focus on market interventions or institutional capacity-building. Questioning the Entrepreneurial State initiates a much sought-after debate on the notion of an Entrepreneurial State. It discusses the dangers of top-down approaches to industrial policy, examines lessons from such approaches for future policy design, and calls attention to the progress of open and contestable markets in a sound economy and society. “Creative destruction, innovation and entrepreneurship are at the core of economic growth. The government has a clear role, to provide the basic fabric of a dynamic society, but industrial policy and state-owned companies are the boulevard of broken dreams and unrealized visions. This important message is convincingly stated in Questioning the Entrepreneurial State.” Anders Borg, former Minister of Finance, Sweden “Misreading the dynamism of American entrepreneurship, European intellectuals and policy makers have embraced a dangerous fantasy: catching up requires constructing an entrepreneurial state. This book provides a vital antidote: The entrepreneur comes first: The state may support. It cannot lead.” Amar Bhidé, Thomas Schmidheiny Professor of International Business, Tufts University “This important new book subjects the emergence of the entrepreneurial state, which reflects a shift in the locus of entrepreneurship from the individual to the public sector, to the scrutiny of rigorous analysis. The resulting concerns, flaws and biases inherent in the entrepreneurial state exposed are both alarming and sobering. The skill and scholarly craftsmanship brought to bear in this crucial analysis is evident throughout the book, along with the even, but ultimately consequential thinking of the authors. A must read for researchers and thought leaders in business and policy." David Audtretsch, Distinguished Professor, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Indiana University

Author : Andrew Fleming West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book How to Improve Our Classical Training ... written by Andrew Fleming West and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pacific Educational Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Lives and Deeds of Our Self-made Men written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Men of our Times ... Biographical sketches ... With ... portraits written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: