Mary Jean Bowman

TL;DR: Mauriac and probably several thousand other Frenchmen have remarked that what worried them most about the United States and Russia was not the respects in which these countries differed but rather that they were fundamentally so much alike.

TL;DR: The human art and ingenuity that were so much appreciated in their economic relevance by Petty and his contemporaries has been the focus of a number of rediscoveries, extensions and even innovative transformations in both substantive theory and analytical methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on identifying and explaining the economic aspects of learning after entry into employment and of the remuneration paid for acquired skills, and include broad societal concerns such as optimality or waste in the allocation of resources, and the distribution of earnings and of access to learning options.

TL;DR: A major problem for LDCs lies in the limitations of social capital and skill base for the provision of such learning opportunities as discussed by the authors, which calls for intensive consideration in labor market and industrial policies.

TL;DR: The relationship between population growth, technological change, and education is complex as discussed by the authors, and the theory of quantity-quality trade-offs in numbers and education of children has limited applicability where immediate contributions of children to the household economy are urgent.