Revealing Failures in the History of Education Finance

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Revealing Failures in the History of Education Finance
Peter Lindert

Paper: Revealing Failures in the History of Education Finance

Professor de Economia na Universidade da Califórnia (Davis) e investigador associado do National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Peter Lindert interessa-se actualmente pelas seguintes temáticas:

  • Causas e efeitos da moderna redistribuição fiscal
  • História da desigualdade
  • « political voice» e crescimento económico

Autor de uma extensíssima obra, destacam-se os seguintes títulos:

  • Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century, 2 vols, Cambridge University Press, (2004
  • Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia, MIT Pres, 2000
  • International Debt Crisis in Historical Perspective, with an "Overview" by the editors (ed com Barry ichengreen), Cambridge, MIT Press, 1990
  • American Inequality: A Macroeconomic History (with  Jeffrey Williamson), New York, Academic Press, 1980
  • Fertility and Scarcity in América, Princeton University Press,1978
  • Key Currencies and Gold 1900-1913, Princeton University Press,1969