Elite Interests and Public Expenditure in Education in the Late XIX and Early XX Century in Prussia: A Dialogue between History and Economics

Sebastián Enrique Acosta Madiedo Aranzalez ()

No 18924, Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID

Abstract: This paper discusses how Prussia’s public education policy was intentionally guided by economic principles that modern economists have formalized and modelled. The essay takes two particular economic models and compares its results with the primary sources available from that time and the research results of current academics and historians who have tackled the subject from their discipline’s point of view. The general conclusion is that the Prussian policy of Public Education was strongly guided by economic principles, which are congruent, intuitively, with the chosen economic models' theoretical and empirical results. *** Este artículo discute hasta qué punto la política pública en torno a la educación en Prusia fue guiada por principios económicos que los economistas modernos han formalizado y modelado. El ensayo analiza dos modelos económicos particulares y compara los resultados obtenidos por los economistas con fuentes primaras de la época y las conclusiones de las investigaciones realizadas por académicos e historiadores que han abordado el tema desde sus respectivas áreas del conocimiento. La conclusión general a la que llega el presente texto es que la política educativa en Prusia fue guiada de forma significativa por principios económicos congruentes, de forma intuitiva, con los resultados teóricos y empíricos de los modelos seleccionados.

Keywords: Prussia; education; expenditure; intentions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H30 H71 I20 N33 N43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 2021-03-04
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