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John E. Petrovic – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
This article defines a public good, arguing that higher education should be considered a public good. This requires moving away from an orthodox economistic understanding of public goods. It also requires understanding the relationship between higher education as both a private good and a public good to the extent that it promotes individual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prosocial Behavior, Altruism, Sharing Behavior
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Alice Civera; Erik Lehmann; Michele Meoli; Stefano Paleari; Maria Sole Brioschi – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
When a pronounced taste for science leads researchers to self-select themselves in academia, higher education systems must be able to protect it. By relying on the economic theory of higher education, the international mobility and the sociology of science literature, we compare the working condition in the four major European higher education…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Sciences, Higher Education, Foreign Countries