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State Education as High-Yield Investment: Human Capital Theory in European Policy Discourse Cover

State Education as High-Yield Investment: Human Capital Theory in European Policy Discourse

By: Donald Gillies  
Open Access
|Feb 2012

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10159-011-0011-3 | Journal eISSN: 1338-2144 | Journal ISSN: 1338-1563
Language: English
Page range: 224 - 245
Published on: Feb 17, 2012
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