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The Race between Education and Technology

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$22.00 • £16.95 • €19.80

ISBN 9780674035300

Publication: March 2010

Short

496 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

51 line illustrations, 42 tables

Belknap Press

World

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    • Introduction
    • I: Economic Growth and Distribution
      • 1. The Human Capital Century
      • 2. Inequality across the Twentieth Century
      • 3. Skill-Biased Technological Change
    • II: Education for the Masses in Three Transformations
      • 4. Origins of the Virtues
      • 5. Economic Foundations of the High School Movement
      • 6. America’s Graduation from High School
      • 7. Mass Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
    • III: The Race
      • 8. The Race between Education and Technology
      • 9. How America Once Led and Can Win the Race for Tomorrow
    • Appendix A: The 1915 Iowa State Census Sample
    • Appendix B: Construction of State-Level Secondary School Data
    • Appendix C: Construction of City-Level Secondary School Data Set
    • Appendix D: Construction of Wage Bill Shares and Educational Wage Differentials, 1915 to 2005
    • Notes
    • References
    • Acknowledgments
    • Index

    Awards

    • 2009 Richard A. Lester Award, Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University
    • 2008 R.R. Hawkins Award, Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
    Celebrating 100 Years of Excellence in Publishing: Harvard University Press Centennial, 1913-2013 [Picture of birthday cake]