Machlup defended tenure as protecting academic freedom in 1964

Evidence

In 1964, the Austrian economist and founding MPS member, Fritz Machlup, delivered a defense of academic freedom, and in particular its tenure protection (on Machlup see Slobodian’s contribution to this volume). … Machlup viewed the professor as playing a crucial role in the advancement of knowledge: One incident during my term of office has, more than anything else, reinforced my belief in the importance of tenure. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 124

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Machlup framed academic tenure as correcting a knowledge-market failure — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 126; Machlup justified tenure as a market correction for academic-freedom externalities; Tenure protect scholars from markets yet breeds systematic accommodation of power — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 324

Broader Connections

• Machlup justified tenure as a market correction for academic-freedom externalities #corroborates (0.90)
• Tenure protect scholars from markets yet breeds systematic accommodation of power #contradicts (0.85) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 324