Education, Training and the Global Economy - Hardcover

Ashton, David; Green, Francis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852789700 ISBN 13: 9781852789701

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

Education, Training and the Global Economy takes issue with the notion that simply more or better education and training will inevitably bring economic success. The authors examine theoretical approaches to education and training before surveying empirical data and our knowledge of current skills trends in the global economy. The institutional and historical determinants of routes to low or high skill formation in industrialized economies are thoroughly considered. Particular attention is paid to the new routes to skill formation found in the dynamic Pacific Rim economies.
This book will be welcomed by researchers, policy makers and students concerned with training, education and labour economics.

About this title

About the Author:

David Ashton is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.

Review:

`This is a very important book. It debunks the "Say's Law" of education which is so popular now among free market enthusiasts: that the supply of educated people automatically creates the demand necessary to employ it. The authors show that for the educated to excel requires a carefully cultivated socio-economic and political environment.' -- Alice H. Amsden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US `The book is a well-written publication on an interesting topic. It also has an extensive bibliography running to thirty-three pages, which can be of immense value to the scholars concerned with these issues. It will be a useful addition to the libraries and to the collection of those individuals who are working in the fields of policy-planning in education and training and in labour economics. The book should also be of interest to a lay man who thinks.' -- M. Chandra, Journal of Science and Industrial Research `. . . it conveys a convincing, well-balanced and original message, namely that while a high-wage and high-skill road of industrial development is feasible. . . . it must be consciously pursued as alternative, low-wage and low-skill industrial futures continue to be both possible and profitable.' -- Wolfgang Streeck, Max-Planck-Institut fur Gesellschaftsforschung, Germany `The book is ambitious and magnificently successful in its inter-disciplinary scope, and is breathtakingly wide-ranging in its factual coverage of training systems in a heterogeneity of countries. Erudite throughout, it is in these respects a real tour de force. Highly recommended.' -- Geraint Johnes, Business History `. . . a provocative inquiry into the implications of divergent development patterns for education and training systems at the national level. The authors, David Ashton and Francis Green, provide a wealth of information and conceptual analysis in their coverage of a wide range of issues.' -- Ronald Rogers, Asia Pacific Journal of Management

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1852789700
• ISBN 13: 9781852789701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240