The race between education and technology Goldin, Claudia

By:

Goldin, Claudia

Contributor(s):

Katz, Lawrence F

Publication details: Harvard Universtiy Press 2008 CambridgeDescription: vi, 488 pISBN:

9780674035300

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DDC classification:

338.4737 G6R2

Summary: This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674035300

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Table of Contents:

I. Economic Growth and Distribution
1. The Human Capital Century
2. Inequality across the Twentieth Century
3. Skill-Biased Technological Change

II. Education for the Masses in Three Transformations
4. Origins of the Virtues
5. Economic Foundations of the High School Movement
6. America’s Graduation from High School
7. Mass Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

III. The Race
8. The Race between Education and Technology
9. How America Once Led and Can Win the Race for Tomorrow

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century.

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