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Name:  Vincent Carpentier
Email:  v.carpentier at ioe.ac.uk
Institution:  Institute of Education, University of London

Co-author:  none

Title:  Systeme Educatif et performances Economiques au Royaume-Uni: 
19eme et 20eme siecles

Internet Address of abstracted work:  not available

By mail:
v.carpentier at ioe.ac.uk

Language:  french

Abstract:
This book is the result of a work integrated into the broader 
research programme on education and economic growth launched by Louis 
Fontvieille at the Economic Department of the University of 
Montpellier. Following previous quantitative history studies of this 
link with respect to France and Germany, a research in a British 
context was a logical step to this long-term international comparison 
of economic growth and education. In order to collect the figures and 
to investigate a very active economic history debate about 
educational issues, I spent two years as a researcher at the 
Institute of Education of London. This book is an attempt to show the 
value of a cross-disciplinary approach to study the relationship 
between education and economic growth. On the one hand a quantitative 
history about the UK public educational system since 1833 is provided 
(a comprehensive statistical inventory of expenditure and enrolment 
on education closes the book). On the other, economic theory, with 
particular reference to the Kondratiev cycles, is employed in an 
attempt to relate such expenditure to economic performance. This book 
aims at providing a better understanding of the past of the UK public 
educational systems and at supplying data for an examination of 
current educational and economic policy.


Bibliography: Carpentier, Vincent. "Systeme Educatif et performances 
Econoiques au Royaume-Uni : 19eme et 20eme siecles." Logiques 
Economiques, L'Harmattan, Paris, 296 pages, 2001.

Subject:  G
Geographical Area:  4
Country/Region:  United Kingdom
Time Period:  0

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