Professor E.G. West - Education before the State

The Economics of Compulsion

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

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

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

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

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

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

Public Schooling: A Dickens of a Mess? (pdf) Competition - The Newsletter of the Council for a Competitive Economy, April 1980

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

The Demise of Free Education (pdf) Challenge, The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Jan/Feb 1985

Education and Crime: A Political Economy of Interdependence (pdf) Character, October 1988

The Rise of the State in Education - Part One: The Intellectual Background (pdf) Policy, Centre for Independent Studies, Autumn 1991

The Rise of the State in Education - Part Two: The Abolition of Parental Fees (pdf) Policy, Centre for Independent Studies, Winter 1991

Education With and Without the State HCO Working Paper 61, World Bank, September 1995

Education Without the State (pdf) Economic Affairs, March 1995

The Spread of Education Before Compulsion: Britain and America in the 19th Century The Freeman 46(6), 1996 The Freeman 46(6), 1996 

Classical Libertarian Compromises on State Education The Freeman 46(10), 1996

E.G. West

E.G. West