Tenure protect scholars from markets yet breeds systematic accommodation of power
Evidence
While their institutional affiliations, the review processes integral to universities, and their tenure all help to protect them against the political and commercial whims of the free market, the very same forces are likely to produce minds that, if they do not exactly serve power, systematically accommodate it. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 324
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: A sharp structuralirony: the very institutions that insulate academics also train them to placate power, overturning the naive faith that tenure equals independence.
- XREF: connects to: Universities protect academic economists’ ethical autonomy more than they police it — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 613; Machlup defended tenure as protecting academic freedom in 1964 — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 124
Related
- Universities protect academic economists’ ethical autonomy more than they police it (similarity 0.83)
- Machlup defended tenure as protecting academic freedom in 1964 (similarity 0.83)
- Tenure-track conformity to power precedes and explains academic quietism (similarity 0.82)
- Machlup justified tenure as a market correction for academic-freedom externalities (similarity 0.79)