TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Phillip AU - Lauder,Hugh AU - Ashton,D.N. TI - The global auction: the broken promises of education, jobs, and incomes SN - 9780199944125 (ebook) : AV - HN90.S65 B77 2011 U1 - 331.70086220973 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Social mobility KW - United States KW - Educational attainment KW - Labor market KW - American Dream N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199731688.001.0001 ER -