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The Global Auction: Phillip Brown. The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, and David Ashton Reviews and Awards "A brilliant new book.

The Global Auction: Phillip Brown

"--Andrew Reinbach, The Huffington Post "The Global Auction is a must-read for parents, college students, and policymakers. "This is a challenging and very timely book. "The Global Auction deals with one of the most pressing issues of our times: how the significant expansion in the labor supply available to multinational corporations is leading to dramatic shifts in the location of employment around the world.

"Brown, Lauder, and Ashton's book is brilliantly argued and provides a wakeup call to global citizens everywhere. "This provocative volume argues that the predicted and promised benefits of the knowledge economy have been illusory for most college-educated workers in the developed world, and that the continuation of neoliberal globalization is likely to bring more of the same. " 'The Global Auction' College and university presidents in the United States and elsewhere regularly link the need for a higher education to individual and national needs for economic advancement.

'The Global Auction'

What if their underlying assumptions aren't true? Three social scientists from British universities challenge many of those assumptions in The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs and Incomes, just published by Oxford University Press. The authors aren't by any means anti-education, but they focus on how some countries -- by investing in education, raising educational attainment and still keeping wages low -- have added complications to the idea of an easy relationship between more education and more money. Q: What are your main critiques of the traditional idea that "learning equals earning"? A: Most of those in higher education today have grown up with the idea that we live in a knowledge economy requiring an unprecedented demand for college graduates. De crisis en jij. Wat vinden jullie van mijn nieuwe pak?

De crisis en jij

Prachtig hè? Klassieke, tijdloze snit, twee knopen, rechte pijpen en dan die stof! Dun, soepel, kreukvrij en bij alle seizoenen te dragen. Van wol, heel dun, heel fijn geweven. Om precies te zijn tachtig procent wol en twintig procent… en nou komt-ie: mohair! Ik hou eigenlijk niet zo van pakken en dassen. Maar goed, waarom sta ik hier ook weer? China… We hebben het hier over up market clothing, niet de alledaagse textieltjes van twaalf in een dozijn die je in H&M of C&A kunt vinden. Verdienen wo’ers zoveel meer dan hbo’ers en mbo’ers? Schumpeter: Angst for the educated. ANS: Zijlstra’s beweringen onder de loep. Vorige week berichtten we al over Halbe Zijlstra’s wetsvoorstel ‘Studeren is investeren’, waarin onze staatssecretaris onder meer pleit voor afschaffing van de basisbeurs in de masterfase en het inkorten van het recht op een ov-kaart met twee jaar.

ANS: Zijlstra’s beweringen onder de loep

Vandaag verscheen op nrcnext.nl een check van de bewering van Zijlstra. Race Against The Machine. @erikbryn. @amcafee. Man vs. Machine: Behind the Jobless Recovery. Recent Trends in Labor Intensity. Or, the History (and Future?) of Steady Work in the US. When I’m trying to understand something, I start drawing graphs using whatever data’s available; pictures help me more than tables of numbers or regression coefficients.

Recent Trends in Labor Intensity. Or, the History (and Future?) of Steady Work in the US

So here’s a picture I drew to see recent trends in US labor productivity — how much more output the American economy gets from its workers over time. Instead of looking at productivity as output per hour worked (the usual measure) I instead looked at output per worker. And I inverted the usual measure, so I’m looking at workers per output — how many workers it takes each year to generate a given level of economic output (in this case, GDP). Let’s call this Labor Intensity. Of course, labor intensity goes down as productivity goes up since one is the inverse of the other. Because the US Bureau of Labor Statistics counts and categorizes workers every year, we can see how the labor intensity of various professions has changed over time. I’ll talk more about these and other trends in later posts.