STATE EDUCATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: DEMANDED OR IMPOSED?

Kate McNally

Economic Affairs, 2010, vol. 30, issue 1, 43-47

Abstract: This article challenges the popular perception that the free market was unable to supply education to meet the needs of nineteenth‐century Britain. Provision of education in fact largely accorded with parental demand, and this level of voluntary consumption was optimal for the time. Government intervention could therefore be ineffective at best, if not actively harmful.

Date: 2010
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