American leadership in the human capital century: have the virtues of the past become the vices of the present?

Claudia Goldin

Conference Series ; [Proceedings], 2002, vol. 47, issue Jun, 25-35

Abstract: America led other nations by a wide margin in the provision of general, formal education to the masses and did so because of characteristics -virtues -that were shaped by New World endowments and republican ideology. Almost all of these virtues are now being questioned, and in the twenty-first century an entirely new set of virtues could emerge.

Keywords: Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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