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Discussion about the purposes and benefits of higher education has been stymied by a particular construction of the relation between private and public benefits that now leads in policy circles and public debate. In this reading of higher education, the private and public benefits are rhetorically juxtaposed on a zero sum basis, while the individual benefits of higher education are defined as solely private and in solely economic terms.
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Marginson, S. (2014). Higher Education and Public Good. In: Goastellec, G., Picard, F. (eds) Higher Education in Societies. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-746-9_5
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