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STATE EDUCATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: DEMANDED OR IMPOSED?
Author(s) -
McNally Kate
Publication year - 2010
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.1468-0270.2009.01972.x
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , economic interventionism , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , intervention (counseling) , supply and demand , business , economic growth , economics , economic policy , political science , sociology , law , social science , medicine , politics , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science , microeconomics
This article challenges the popular perception that the free market was unable to supply education to meet the needs of nineteenth‐century Britain. Provision of education in fact largely accorded with parental demand, and this level of voluntary consumption was optimal for the time. Government intervention could therefore be ineffective at best, if not actively harmful.