Education in the Marketplace, 1st ed. 2019 An Intellectual History of Pro-Market Libertarian Visions for Education in Twentieth Century America Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism Series

This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education. Currie-Knight tracks the diverse and evolving arguments libertarians have made, with each chapter devoted to a different libertarian thinker, their reasoning and their impact. 

What are the issues libertarians have had with state-controlled public schooling? What have been the libertarian voices on the benefits of markets in education? How have these thinkers interacted with law and policy? All of these questions are considered in this important text for those interested in debates over market mechanisms in education and those who are keen to understand how those arguments have changed over time. 

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Albert Jay Nock: Pessimism about Education by State or Market.- Chapter 3: Frank Chodorov: Consumer Sovereignty, Markets in Education, and “A School on Every Corner”.- Chapter 4: Ayn Rand: Isabel Paterson, Private Education for a Free Society, and Education for Galt’s Gulch.- Chapter 5: Murray Rothbard: Separating Education and the State Beyond Left and Right.- Chapter 6: Milton (and Rose) Friedman: Education Vouchers and State Financing of Private Education.- Chapter 7: Myron Lieberman: Education without Romance, Public Choice Economics, and Markets in Education.- Chapter 8: “Other Conceptions, Both Powerful and Exotic”: School Choice Visions from Voices from the Political Left.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.