Education, Education, Education: Commodity for Sale or Property Right? Book Chapter
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Tim Kaye, Education, Education, Education: Commodity for Sale or Property Right?, in Property and Protection: Essays in Honour of Brian W. Harvey (Frank Meisel and Peter Cook eds., Hart Publishing, 2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Those complaining about the current state of education often put the blame on the so-called 'commodification' of education. This paper points out, however, that education has always been commodified. What is of much more interest is whether - in England and Wales at least - a right to education has evolved which is more than just some sort of moral claim but actually has the status of a property right.
