In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a
future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that …

The sixth edition of this successful textbook discusses elements of the welfare system,
including cash benefits, the health service and education. The text argues that the welfare …

This chapter reviews a wide array of research on the impact of educational attainment on
quality of life. Adopting Cummins'(Soc Indi Res 38: 303–328, 1996; Assessing quality of life …

Human capital theory has had a profound impact on a range of disciplines from economics
to education and sociology. The theory has always been the subject of bitter criticisms from …

This review of human capital theory begins in 1776 and ends in the 1960s, when the
theoretical and empirical foundations of the field were articulated and established. The …

Over the last two decades league tables or rankings of universities and academic programs
have come to prominence around the world. Following the publication of college and …

As adults, we are all continually involved in learning, with increasing numbers of us
engaged in more formalized forms of learning; that is, in education or training. All those …

This book proposes an innovative treatment of minority language policies, by looking at
them as policy options that can be methodically evaluated. The author applies the analytical …

'Knowledge Management Foundations' is just what it claims, the first attempt to provide a
secure intellectual footing for the myriad of practices called" knowledge management." A …

A variety of economic concepts, theories, and models have been useful in the study of the
finance of higher education (Cohn and Geske, 1990; Leslie and Brinkman, 1988; Paulsen …