Education Vouchers in Principle and Practice: A Survey World Bank Research Observer, Vol 12, No. 1,  February 1997.

Education Vouchers in Principle and Practice: A Survey The Full Report, 1996

Is Privatization through Education Vouchers Really the Answer? A Comment on West, Martin Carnoy, World Bank Research Observer, Vol 12, No. 1,  February 1997.

Education Without the State (pdf) Economic Affairs, March 1994

Autonomy in School Provision: Meanings and Implications - Review Essay (pdf) Economics of Education Review, Vol. 11, No.4, pp.417-425, 1992

Nonprofit Organisations: Revised Theory and New Evidence (pdf) Public Choice 63: 165-174, 1989

Open Enrolment: A Vehicle for Market Competition in Schooling? (pdf) Cato Journal, Vol 9, No 1, Spring/Summer 1989

Education Reform:  Administrative Objections Over-ruled (pdf) Economic Affairs, Vol 6, No. 4, April/May 1986

Public Aid to Ontario's Public Schools (pdf) Canadian Public Policy, Vol. XI: 4, 1985

Are American Schools Working? Disturbing Cost and Quality Trends Cato Policy Analysis No.26,  August 1983 

Nineteenth-Century Education According to West: A Comment (pdf) Economic History Review, Vol 36, No.3, August, 1983

Education Vouchers: Evolution or Revolution. (pdf) Economic Affairs, Vol 3, No.1, October 1982

The Public School System and the Deterioration of Choice, Efficiency and Free Exercise (pdf) Review Journal of Philosophy & Social Sciences, Vol. IV, No.2, 1979

Literacy and the Industrial Revolution (pdf) The Economic History Review, Vol. XXX1, No.3, August 1978.

The Perils of Public Education The Freeman, November 1977.

Educational Slowdown and Public Intervention in 19th Century England: A Study in the Economics of Bureaucracy Explorations in Economic History 12, (1975)

The Bilateral Monopoly Theory of Public Goods: A Critique The Journal of Political Economy, Vol 81, Issues 5 (Sept - Oct, 1973)

In a recent article Hirofumi Shibata (1971) has attempted to show that there is an essential identity between the theory of public goods and the theory of bilateral monopoly.  I offer here a critique of his argument.

Forster and After: 100 Years of State Education (pdf) Economic Age, Vol.2 No.5 July-August 1970

Resource Allocation and Growth in Early Nineteenth Century British Education (pdf) The Economic History Review, Vol. XXIII, No.1, 1970

Tom Paine's Voucher Scheme for Education (pdf) Southern Economic Journal, January 1967.

The Uneasy case for State Education (pdf) New Individualist Review, Winter 1966,

Liberty and Education: John Stuart Mill's Dilemma (pdf) Philosophy, April 1965

The Role of Education in Nineteenth-Century Doctrines of Political Economy (pdf) British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. XII, No.2, May, 1964

Private versus Public Education: A Classical Economic Dispute (pdf) Journal of Political Economy, October 1964