Economia de la Educacion [Book review]

Abstract

This book is intended to introduce Spanish-speaking readers, particularly undergraduate education students enrolled in Spanish universities, to the international literature on the economics of education. The Editor's strategy to achieve this goal is to present "the main issues faced today by economics of education in the form of texts selected from the most outstanding authors at the international level" (p.9). 'International' is, in this case, a restricted term. Of the thirteen articles included in this collection, all but one have been previously published exclusively in U.S. or British journals, and their authors work in U.S. or British "1niversities. The remaining article deals with educational financing in Spain, and its author is a professor from the Universidad de Barcelona. That restriction notwithstanding, the book supplies an excellent overview of the discipline by providing a good sample of its main theoretical and methodological approaches.