Education and Economic Performance

Throughout the developed and developing worlds, education spending is seen as a key tool for government policy makers in the quest for economic growth. Promoting 'human capital' development is a prime objective for economic and education ministries. The seminal articles in this essential volume include early classics which explain why education became central to productivity debates and more recent papers which elucidate the enormous controversies in this important field.

This collection, with an original introduction by the editors, will be of great interest to academics and students interested in growth, productivity, innovation and economic performance.

Edited by Alison Wolf, Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, King’s College London, UK and Sandra McNally, Director, Education Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, UK