Markets for Schooling: An Economic Analysis
本书综述了教育市场的相关文献，探讨市场在教育资源配置中的作用及英国教育市场改革的效果，适合政策制定者和普通读者。
This book provides a thorough survey of the market for schooling. The book's main contribution is to survey a complete and disparate literature on this very important topic. It does so in a very readable style which does not use formal mathematical notation or complex theoretical arguments. This is some achievement, since many of the papers discussed are themselves quite technical articles. This style has the virtue that the book should be accessible to the intelligent lay person and most importantly, to the policy maker. Although the book draws on international evidence and papers published in many countries the central context of the book is the school policy and quasi‐market debate in the UK. The central questions tackled in this book are: What is the role of the market as a resource allocation device in education? What has happened as a result of the market reforms in the provision of education?