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A Critical Critique of Mainstream Educational Economics
Human Capital, Knowledge, and the Political Economy of Education

Author: Hüseyin Gürkan ABALI
Publishing: September 2026
Certification Number: 72273
ISBN:978-625-8839-84-5
© All Sciences Academy

Table of Contents

    Chapter 1
    Introduction: Education, Human Capital, and The Politics of Economic Knowledge

    Chapter 2
    Science As Social Practice

    Chapter 3
    The Formation and Global Expansion of Educational Economics

    Chapter 4
    The Neoclassical Toolkit and Its Limits

    Chapter 5
    Value, Productivity, and Distribution

    Chapter 6
    Models, Measurement, and Econometric Abstraction

    Chapter 7
    Heterodox Countercurrents

    Chapter 8
    Toward aCritical Political Economy of Education

    Chapter 9
    Education and Macroeconomic Growth: Two Model Audits

    Chapter 10
    Returns to Education and The Distribution of Earnings

    Chapter 11
    Financing, Governance, and The Transnational Policy Field

    Chapter 12
    Conclusion: Beyond Education as Human Capital

    Chapter 13
    References
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