ERIC Number: ED024108
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1966
Pages: 69
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The Economics of American Education: A Bibliography, Including Selected Major References for Other Nations.
Deitch, Kenneth M., Comp.; McLoone, Eugene P., Comp.
This bibliography lists 724 books and articles dealing with the economics of education. With a few exceptions, the listings begin with 1950 and the majority have been published since 1960. Areas covered include (1) theory of human capital, (2) textbooks, (3) collected readings, (4) the political economy of education and broad social concerns, (5) consuming the product: price, enrollment, and demand for education, (6) producing educational services: salaries, relationships between quality and cost, and technology in instruction, (7) finance: role of government, financing primary and secondary schools, financing higher education, and fellowships and loans to students, (8) measuring the supply and demand for specialized manpower, (9) the role of educational institutions, government, and private industry in training specialized manpower, (10) the payoff to investment in education: individual returns and social returns. Bibliographies and articles reviewing important portions of the literature are included. Highly technical material, collections of data, and articles on the methodology of collecting data are excluded. (TT)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development, Educational Benefits, Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Educational Technology, Fellowships, Government Role, Higher Education, Human Capital, Labor Needs, Public Schools, Salaries, Social Influences, Textbooks
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Sponsor: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Phi Delta Kappa, Bloomington, IN.
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