Political economics of higher education finance
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The Economics of Higher Education
The following investigation of post secondary education will proceed via three subdisciplines of modem economic analysis: first, by way of well-known techniques used in the study of public finance (welfare economics); second through models connected with the economic theory of organization; and third through the approach of ʺpublic choiceʺ (the economics of politics). There are important areas ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Oxford Economic Papers
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0030-7653,1464-3812
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gps042