Privatisation and university education: what is at stake?
Abstract
This article examines the nature of education as a good. It first discusses the approach in the economics literature and argues that while education does not constitute a public good in the narrow technical sense, it has a wider number of characteristics that mean it is a very non-ordinary type of good. An examination of the non-economics literature underlines the special nature of education as a good. For this reason, this article provides little comfort for those who argue that privatisation and market solutions in general can help transform university education.
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Τσακαλώτος Ε. (2017). Privatisation and university education: what is at stake?. Greek Political Science Review, 11, 27–53. https://doi.org/10.12681/hpsa.15113
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