The Race between Education and Technology

Claudia Goldin

Lawrence F. Katz

  • 2008 R.R. Hawkins Award, The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers
  • 2009 The Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics
  • Introduction

    Part I: Economic Growth and Distribution

  1. The Human Capital Century
  2. Inequality across the Twentieth Century
  3. Skill-biased Technological Change

    4. Part II: Education for the Masses in Three Transformations

  4. The 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

    8. Part III. The Race

  8. The Race between Education and Technology
  9. How America Once Led and Can Win the Race for Tomorrow
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D
  • Notes
  • References
  • A Note on Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Cover: The Race between Education and Technology
  • A photo of the author

Photo of Claudia Goldin (top); photo of Lawrence Katz (bottom) by Tony Rinaldo

Claudia Goldin is Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Lawrence Katz is Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University.