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Markets, Minds, and Money : Why America Leads the World in University Research / Miguel Urquiola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Urquiola S., Miguel (Urquiola Soux), Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Research--United States--History.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States--History.
- Universities and colleges--Graduate work--History.
- Universities and colleges.
- Free enterprise--United States--History.
- Free enterprise.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Free markets made US universities world leaders in research. Economist Miguel Urquiola argues that in the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurial universities saw they could meet the industrializing country's demand for expertise. They moved away from religiously inspired teaching, and market dynamics allowed them to surpass European competitors.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1. A Puzzle
- CHAPTER 2. The Antebellum College
- CHAPTER 3. Teaching Reform
- CHAPTER 4. Sorting Reform
- CHAPTER 5. Productivity
- CHAPTER 6. Europe
- CHAPTER 7. The United States
- CHAPTER 8. The Future
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674246607
- 0674246608
- 9780674246621
- 0674246624
- OCLC:
- 1149451655
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