Exploring the Present Through the Past
Claudia Goldin on human capital, gender and the lessons from history
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon
Volume 8, Number 4, 2007, pages 61 - 124
Claudia Goldin is one of the world’s leading economists and economic historians, and has made a series of outstanding and original contributions particularly to the cliometric (or ‘The New Economic History’) literature. In this interview, Professor Goldin discusses with Brian Snowdon (who first prov ... Read more
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Education in a Globalized World
David E. Bloom
Volume 7, Number 4, 2006, pages 87 - 109
The arguments in favor of education rest on various premises: legal and humanitarian—that children are entitled to an education as a basic human right; economic—that countries will advance faster when people are educated; social and political-that education is essential for building cohesive, equita ... Read more
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Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America’s Future Workforce
Eric Knudsen, James J. Heckman, Judy Cameron & Jack P. Shonkoff
Volume 7, Number 3, 2006, pages 17 - 41
A growing proportion of the US workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and neuro ... Read more
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The Health and Wealth of Africa
David E. Bloom & David Canning
Volume 5, Number 2, 2004, pages 57 - 81
Among Africa’s problems, chronic poverty and poor health stand out. Traditional
development thinking has maintained that health improvements are a
consequence of income growth. But new evidence shows that investing in health,
with the aid of the international community, could make a big differenc ... Read more
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The Quest for Development
What role does history play?
Areendam Chanda & Louis Putterman
Volume 5, Number 2, 2004, pages 1 - 31
It may be no coincidence that those countries that grew most rapidly in the late
twentieth century—including South Korea, China, and, of late, India—were
relatively developed civilizations when Western Europe began its overseas
expansion five centuries ago. In this article the authors explore the ... Read more
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Opening Up Trade in Higher Education
A role for GATS?
J. R. Shackleton
Volume 4, Number 4, 2003, pages 55 - 77
Internationalisation of higher education is too often treated as an issue for
universities and national governments alone. The expansion of trade in HE
services is part of a wider picture. The demand for liberalisation of world trade in
all types of services has led to the creation of the General ... Read more
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