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Emerging International Dimensions in East Asian Higher Education pp 15–33Cite as

Higher Education as a Public Good in a Marketized East Asian Environment

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This chapter discusses the public value of East Asian higher education in a highly marketized context. Focus is on shared and collective benefits in higher education, in a policy setting in East Asia and elsewhere where higher education is formally positioned as a competition between universities and as a tool of national competition in a globalizing world. The chapter is concerned with two related matters: (1) defining and identifying the public good and the different public goods in higher education and (2) augmenting those public goods, both national and global.

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    Simon Marginson

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  1. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Akiyoshi Yonezawa

  2. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuto Kitamura

  3. Kurume University, Kurume, Japan

    Arthur Meerman

  4. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Kazuo Kuroda

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Marginson, S. (2014). Higher Education as a Public Good in a Marketized East Asian Environment. In: Yonezawa, A., Kitamura, Y., Meerman, A., Kuroda, K. (eds) Emerging International Dimensions in East Asian Higher Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8822-9_2

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