Terv és piac az oktatásban
Plan and Market in Education

Summary/Abstract: This study of István Polónyi seeks to uncover the characteristics of education and education policy, circumstances in which market conditions operate, and also central redistribution. The work analyzes the economic and sociological literature based on market characteristics, centralized redistribution coming from a planned economy, and a planned market economy; the study then analyzes the quality and effectiveness of education within a planned economy and a market economy. Finally, the writing deals with the specific features of purely private education (education in the shadows). It argues that the quality and the efficiency of education directed in a redistributive manner are problems – though, in addition, a market in education causes polarization and inequalities, too. The study ends with the idea that educational policy – at least in Hungary – fluctuates in its approach between the market’s and a central, redistributive one.

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