Higher learning, greater good
Subtitle: the private and social benefits of higher education
By: Walter W. McMahon.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780801890536
Subjects: Education, Higher; Higher education and state; Education -- Economic aspects; Education -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is the problem?; title: Challenges facing higher education policy; title: Higher education and economic growth : jobs, earnings, and the skill deficit; title: Private non-market benefits of higher education and market failure; title: Social benefits of higher education and their policy implications; title: University research : social benefits and policy; title: New higher education policies; title: Conclusions.