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| Education: Education is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, and values. It helps us to understand the world around us and to make informed decisions. See also Knowledge, Second Nature._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Minimal State on Education - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 124 Education/Minimal state/Gaus/Mack: Widespread primary and secondary education are also often seen as, if not perfect public goods, goods that possess significant similarities to public goods, and so will be significantly undersupplied by free markets. However, while advocates of the Small State thus endorse taxation to fund general education, this does not justify public provision of that education. ‘The strong case for government finance of at least general education,’ says Hayek, ‘does not however imply that this education should also be managed by the government, and still less that government should acquire a monopoly of it’ (1979(1): 61). Thus advocates of the Small State have endorsed vouchers, by which government compensates for the undersupply of education by additional funding, but leaves provision to the market (Friedman and Friedman, 1980(2): ch. 6). ((s) For the concept of the „Small State“ see >Minimal state/Gaus.) 1. Hayek, F. A. (1979) Lau; Legislation and Liberty. vol. 111, The Political Order of a Free People. London: Routledge 2. Friedman, Milton and Rose Friedman (1980) Free to Choose. London: Secker and Warburg. Mack, Eric and Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. „Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism: The Liberty Tradition.“ In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Minimal State Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |
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