edited by Edward P. Lazear, Hoover Institution
2002
Hoover's Edward P. Lazear is the editor of this 190-page collection of essays on education by Hoover scholars and others. The first half is devoted to "education and income." Authors here are Gary Becker, Robert Barro, Robert Hall and Paul Romer. It contains some interesting findings, such as Barro's observation (in a fine essay on education as a determinant of economic growth) that the quality of a country's education system is considerably more consequential for that country's economic development than the amount of formal education that its people obtain. Paul Romer also contributes a very skeptical look at the distributional consequences of education choice. (He's unconvinced that it'll be good for the poor.) The volume's second half, grandly entitled "education and society," contains excellent essays by Hoover's Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell as well as contributions by Andrew Coulson and Jennifer Roback Morse. The ISBN is 0817928928. You can obtain additional information at http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/homepage/books/ed21st.html.
