Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision ofbest practice based on the methods and tenets of theneo-liberal imaginary. Philanthro

Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

List of figures and boxes, Acknowledgements, Foreword: (not) reading this book, 1. Networks, neo-liberalism and policy mobilities, 2. Doing neo-liberalism - markets and states, and friends with money, 3. Transnational advocacy networks and policy entrepreneurship: Indiana Jones, business and schooling of the poor, 4. 'New' philanthropy, social capitalism and education policy, 5. Policy as profit: selling and exporting policy, 6. Education as big business, 7. Money, meaning and policy connections, References, Index