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Adam Smith in the School Classroom
Author(s) -
Harding Simon
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01714.x
Subject(s) - adam smith , argument (complex analysis) , diversity (politics) , school choice , economics , head (geology) , sociology , mathematics education , classical economics , positive economics , pedagogy , psychology , market economy , medicine , geomorphology , anthropology , geology
‘Schools and the Economy’ usually examines the role of teaching economics in schools to stimulate economic awareness in pupils, Simon Harding, Head of Economics at Westminster School, turns the argument around, to reveal how markets operating inside schools would improve efficiency, increase consumer choice, weed out incompetence, and. encourage diversity.