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The Political Economy of School Choice

by Herbert Gintis - 1995

The analysis of the competitive delivery of educational services has often been coached in terms of an opposition between government regulation and the free market. This article suggests that regulation and markets may be complementary institutions that under appropriate conditions interact as a context for cost-effective equalitarian and socially accountable education.

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 96 Number 3, 1995, p. 492-511
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 30, Date Accessed: 6/6/2020 5:17:21 PM

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