Overview
- Highlights the continued relevance of ideas about markets in education
- Examines the impact these libertarian thinkers had on education policy
- Presents the arguments for markets in education
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Markets in Education
- Classical liberalism
- Pro-market approach
- School vouchers
- Educational vouchers
- Economics of education
- Public education
- Private education
- History of thought
- Education governance
- Herbert Spencer
- Matthew Arnold
- Albert Jay Nock
- Frank Chodorov
- Ayn Rand
- Murrary Rothbard
- Milton Friedman
- Myron Lieberman
- Public choice economics
- Rose Friedman
About this book
This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education. Currie-Knight tracks the diverse and evolving arguments libertarians have made, with each chapter devoted to a different libertarian thinker, their reasoning and their impact.
What are the issues libertarians have had with state-controlled public schooling? What have been the libertarian voices on the benefits of markets in education? How have these thinkers interacted with law and policy? All of these questions are considered in this important text for those interested in debates over market mechanisms in education and those who are keen to understand how those arguments have changed over time.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education in the Marketplace
Book Subtitle: An Intellectual History of Pro-Market Libertarian Visions for Education in Twentieth Century America
Authors: Kevin Currie-Knight
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11778-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11777-1Published: 26 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11778-8Published: 12 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 210
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Education Economics, History of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Public Economics