Education and the Commercial Mindset

Samuel E. Abrams

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$41.00 • £32.95 • €37.00

ISBN 9780674049178

Publication Date: 04/25/2016

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432 pages

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

12 charts, 20 tables

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Prologue
1. Fundamental Change
2. Market Discipline
3. On the Wire
4. Reprise
5. The Governor’s Proposal
6. Waterloo
7. Redefinition
8. Market Failure
9. The Fourth Way
10. Limits
11. A Distant Mirror
12. Across the Gulf
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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