The modern adjunct crisis and patent-driven university funding have identifiable neoliberal precursors.

Evidence

Understanding this history is pressing in light of present-day concerns about “the neoliberal university” and the shift from permanent faculty to adjunct labor, the restructuring of funding in pursuit of patents and other marketable research outcomes, the pervasive discourses of impact, customer (student) experience, and realignment to forms of training rewarded by high post-graduate salaries. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 35

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relates to the author’s infrastructure/trees piece only loosely; more directly relevant as a scholarly genealogy, not a direct follow-up.
• XREF: connects to: Foundation funding and private research work shaped early neoliberal career paths — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 101; Neoliberalism’s 1980s breakthrough rested on decades of prior institutional groundwork — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 128; Neoliberal values have displaced academic vocation’s traditional disinterest in money. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 688

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s 1980s breakthrough rested on decades of prior institutional groundwork #expands (0.88) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 128
• Neoliberal values have displaced academic vocation’s traditional disinterest in money. #corroborates (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 688
• Foundation funding and private research work shaped early neoliberal career paths #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 101