Markets, minds, and money : why America leads the world in university research / Miguel Urquiola.
Markets, minds, and money : why America leads the world in university research / Miguel Urquiola.
Markets, minds, and money : why America leads the world in university research / Miguel Urquiola.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/2828
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English
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347 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Part I. American research performance: A puzzle -- The antebellum college -- Teaching reform -- Sorting reform -- Productivity -- Part II. Self-rule, free entry, free scope: Europe -- The United States -- The future.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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Massachusetts
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2020.
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"America's educational system excels in at least one area: university-based research. Why? Miguel Urquiola, an economist of education, argues that the key is that the United States takes a free market approach to education. Urquiola begins by showing how dominant American universities are in research, in part by developing a historical database of...
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Markets, minds, and money : why America leads the world in university research / Miguel Urquiola.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/2828
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74VKadPzyG7A
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0674244230 hardcover
9780674244238 hardcover
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378.007
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991024317402902626
