Edited By
Dominic J. Brewer
Patrick J. McEwan
Description
A collection of short, stand-alone chapters divided into five sections including overview of the field; private and social returns
to human capital investments; production, costs and financing of education; teachers and teacher labor markets; and education
markets, choice and incentives. The collection provides international perspectives that describe the origins of these subjects,
their major issues and proponents, their landmark studies, and opportunities for future research.
The 70 contributors are each
well-regarded economists whose research has advanced the topic on which they write, and this book fulfills an undersupplied niche
for a text in the economics of education.
The chapters come from the acclaimed
International Encyclopedia of Education,
3e (2010), edited by Eva Baker, Barry McGaw, and Penelope Peterson. The
Encyclopedia contains over 1,350
articles in 24 sections that stretch from educational philosophies and technologies to measurement, leadership, and national systems
of education.
