Nelson Adam R. Nelson

Exchange of Ideas (eBook, ePUB)

The Economy of Higher Education in Early America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.Exchange of Ideas launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. In this volume, Adam R. Nelson focuses on the early republic, explaining how knowledge itself became a commodity, as useful ideas became salable goods and American colleges were drawn into transatlantic commercial relations. American scholars might once have imagined that higher education could sit beyond the sphere of market activity that intellectual exchange could transcend vulgar consumerism but already by the end of the eighteenth century, they saw how ideas could be factored into the nation s balance of trade. Moreover, they concluded that it was the function of colleges to oversee the complex process whereby knowledge could be priced and purchased. The history of capitalism and the history of higher education, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwined which raises a host of important and strikingly urgent questions. How do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods? Who should pay for them? And, fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education in a capitalist democracy?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226828503
• Artikelnr.: 72465076

Autorenporträt

Adam R. Nelson is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools and Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964 and coeditor of Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America and The Global University: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives.