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This book is a fresh contribution to the increasingly sterile political and academic discourses on education and society. Using incisive and empirically grounded transformative perspectives as lenses of analysis, the authors succeed in liberating the reader from the dominant and simplistic economic determinism that has, for a long time, concealed the culpability of structural attributes of corporate capitalism in creating the triad of poverty, unemployment and inequality.

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Education, Economy and Society makes an impressive critique of conventional wisdom - that the promise of job creation, addressed through the greater supply of skills, can resolve the most intractable of social problems. The book argues persuasively that

"Education, Economy and Society ""makes an impressive critique of conventional wisdom - that the promise of job creation, addressed through the greater supply of skills, can resolve the most intractable of social problems. The book argues persuasively that"

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Salim Vally and Enver Motala are two of South AfricaAEs most outspoken critics of the aethere is no alternativeAE view to the hegemonic neo liberal approach to economic development and the place of education within it. In this text they, and a number of eminent colleagues, provide one of the few elaborations in the country of what is wrong with human capital theory, with supply side approaches framing economic policy and with current education strategies which privilege individual advancement.

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