Public Vices, Private Virtues?: Assessing the Effects of Marketization in Higher Education

by Pedro N. Teixeira (Editor), David D. Dill (Editor)

Recent years have seen the strengthening of a discourse that emphasises the virtues of markets, competition and private initiative, vis-à-vis the vices of public intervention in higher education. This volume presents a timely reflection about the effects this increasing marketization has been producing in many higher education systems worldwide.

369 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011