Markets, Minds, and Money : : Why America Leads the World in University Research / / Miguel Urquiola.

Free markets made US universities world leaders in research. Economist Miguel Urquiola argues that in the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurial universities saw they could meet the industrializing country’s demand for expertise. They moved away from religiously inspired teaching, and market dynam...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • PART I. American Research Performance
  • CHAPTER 1. A Puzzle
  • CHAPTER 2. The Antebellum College
  • CHAPTER 3. Teaching Reform
  • CHAPTER 4. Sorting Reform
  • CHAPTER 5. Productivity
  • PART II. Self-Rule, Free Entry, Free Scope
  • CHAPTER 6. Europe
  • CHAPTER 7. The United States
  • CHAPTER 8. The Future
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index