Martin Carnoy

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Martin Carnoy

Bio and Research Interest

Professor Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Economics at Stanford University, where he has served on the faculty since 1969. He is a labor economist with a special interest in the political economy of the educational system. He specializes in comparative analysis. At Stanford he teaches courses in the economics of education in a global environment and resource allocation.

His research interests include applied economics, economics of education, international comparative education, and race, inequality, and language in education (RILE). He currently is conducting research on econometric models of quality of education in Latin America and Southern Africa, changes in university financing, and the quality of engineering and science tertiary education in China, India, and Russia.

PhD

University of Chicago, 1964, Economics

Publications

Faded dreams: The economics and politics of race in America. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Sustaining the new economy: Work, family, and community in the information age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Cuba’s Academic Advantage (lead author). Stanford Press.2007. Portuguese edition, 2009; Spanish edition, 2010.

University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy: Triumph of the BRICs? (lead author, with others). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. Also Portuguese and Russian editions.

The Low Achievement Trap: Comparing Schooling in Botswana and South Africa (lead author, with others). Pretoria: HSRC Press, 2012.

Transforming Comparative Education: Fifty Years of Theory Building at Stanford. Stanford University Press, 2019.

Whitewashing Race (with others). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, Second Edition, 2022.

La Vie Mouvementée de Michal K. (novel). Éditions Bouquins (Paris), 2023.

The Political Economy of Education. Cambridge University Press, 2024