{"product_id":"human-capital-the-tragedy-of-the-education-commons-paperback","title":"Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGuy Standing\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the clearest and most important studies to be published on education, worldwide, in many decades' Danny Dorling\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDoes the education system make better people? Why are so many - teachers and students alike - stressed and dissatisfied? Do we need to revive real education? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIdeally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital - skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market - has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. Rather than learning how to think critically about the world, from cradle to grave students are trained to be more effective workers, to make more money, and to serve an hegemonic ideology. Teachers and researchers are pressed to serve those goals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this concluding book in his series on the commons, Guy Standing shows us how education - intrinsically a common public good - has been enclosed, privatised, financialised and corrupted, turned into an instrument of societal control, not human emancipation, weakening democracy, not strengthening it. \u003ci\u003eHuman Capital \u003c\/i\u003echarts how the education industry largely serves commercial interests, not its teachers and students, and considers how to revive its lost values, to save society for the common good.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuy Standing\u003c\/b\u003e has held professorships at Bath, London and Monash universities, was a programme director in the UN's International Labour Organization and has advised many international bodies and governments on social and economic policies. He co-founded the Basic Income Earth Network and is now its co-president. He is author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Precariat: The New Dangerous Class\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eBasic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and \u003ci\u003ePlunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth \u003c\/i\u003e(2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 7.1 x 4.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48452318986489,"sku":"9780241688182","price":23.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/XFISOCODTl9780241688182.webp?v=1779947724","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/human-capital-the-tragedy-of-the-education-commons-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}