Education for modernization:meritocratics myths in China, Mexico, United States and Japan Educación para la modernización: mitos meritrocráticos en China, México, Estados Unidos y Japón

This paper criticizes those views which argue that the goal of economic modernization makes meritocracy necessary. It argues that meritocratic systems, far from being economically necessary, actually hinder modernization of both nonindustrialized an industrialized economies. The wrong curricula are...

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Main Author: Ranson Baldwin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 1998-12-01
Series:Cuadernos de Economía
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ceconomia/article/view/11564

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