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A hundred years ago the leading English economist, Alfred Marshall, wrote:
There are few practical problems in which the economist has a more direct interest than those relating to the principles on which the expense of education of children should be divided between the State and the parents. (Marshall, 1890, p.180).
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© 1992 Julian Le Grand, Carol Propper and Ray Robinson
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Le Grand, J., Propper, C., Robinson, R. (1992). Education. In: The Economics of Social Problems. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21930-8_4
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