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Title: The Human Capital Century and American Leadership: Virtues of the Past

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: The modern concept of the wealth of nations emerged by the early twentieth century. Capital embodied in people human capital mattered. The United States led all nations in mass postelementary education during the human-capital century.' The American system of education was shaped by New World endowments and Republican ideology and was characterized by virtues including publicly funded mass education that was open and forgiving, academic yet practical, secular, gender neutral, and funded and controlled by small districts. The American educational template was a remarkable success, but recent educational concerns and policy have redefined some of its 'virtues' as 'vices.'

Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w8239

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Authors: Goldin, Claudia

Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 8239

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Publisher Location: Cambridge, Massachusets

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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