Stigler rejected collegiate self-governance as a safeguard of academic freedom

Evidence

Hence, by the time of his 1969 correspondence with Machlup, Stigler would not have accepted his argument that an agreement between trustees, regents, administrators, scholars, and teachers would foster intellectual freedom. He would have been skeptical that any one of those groups could be trusted to do so. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 138

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Stigler argued students lack the qualifications to judge course or research quality. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 105; Faculty self-governance breeds insularity, so outsiders should govern universities — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 117; Neoliberal university governance subordinates academic freedom to institutional transactions — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 663 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal university governance subordinates academic freedom to institutional transactions #complicates (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 663