01610nam a2200349 a 4500 EDZ0000077329 StDuBDS 20171011092518.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120418s2011 nyua fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199944125 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HN90.S65 B77 2011 331.70086220973 23 Brown, Phillip, 1957- The global auction : the broken promises of education, jobs, and incomes / [electronic resource] Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, and David Ashton. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (viii, 198 p.) : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Challenging this conventional wisdom, 'The Global Auction' forces us to reconsider our deeply held and mistaken views about how the global economy really works and how to thrive in it. Description based on print version record. Social mobility United States. Educational attainment United States. Labor market United States. American Dream. Lauder, Hugh, 1948- Ashton, D. N. Print version 9780199731688 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199731688.001.0001 ddc BK 38257 38257