Exchange of Ideas - The Economy of Higher Education in Early America

"In this first volume of a planned trilogy that will recast the history of the university in a fresh and surprising light, Adam R. Nelson aims to show how knowledge itself was commodified, starting in the late eighteenth century. Nelson follows the market transformation in the age of revolutions to show how American colleges were drawn into transatlantic commercial relations. Fusing the history of higher education with the history of capitalism, Nelson opens up an array of questions: How do we distinguish between knowledge and education as goods? Are they public or private? What determines their prices? In the most fundamental sense, what is the optimal system of higher education in a capitalist democracy? The answers have jarring relevance today"--

About the author

Adam R. Nelson is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985 (also published by the University of Chicago Press), among other books.

Product details

• Authors: Adam R. Nelson, Nelson Adam R.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9780226828497
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82849-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Education, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), History of Education, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era)