Neoliberal values have displaced academic vocation’s traditional disinterest in money.

Evidence

It would seem that many faculty have departed from the values of the priesthood for those of the market, rendering the notion that “you don’t go into academia for the money” a quaint shibboleth of a tweedy past, one spurned by market-smart young professionals who just happen to study Chaucer or South Asian politics. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 688

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The modern adjunct crisis and patent-driven university funding have identifiable neoliberal precursors. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 35; Weak theory rationalizes the academic profession’s loss of living wages.; Academic life offers neither real money nor real power — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 91 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Weak theory rationalizes the academic profession’s loss of living wages. #corroborates (0.85)
• Academic life offers neither real money nor real power #expands (0.80) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 91
• The present-focused economy of volatility has displaced deferred-gratification sacrifice. #corroborates (0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 77