University restructuring locked in economists’ institutional shelter from accountability

Evidence

Hence any academic status degradation of the economics profession on its home ground would entail an implicit repudiation of the trajectory of university restructuring, which had three decades of impetus behind it. In other words, absent the world being turned upside down, or another great wave of university restructuring, the economics profession would continue to enjoy shelter from the impecunious storm within the modern university. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 589

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economists embedded their university vision in administrative structures that outlive them. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 2132; University commercialization since the 1980s entrenched economics by placing economists atop major universities. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 585; Economists drove and profited from the commercialization of universities — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 587 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Universities protect academic economists’ ethical autonomy more than they police it #contradicts (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 613
• Neoliberal university governance subordinates academic freedom to institutional transactions #expands (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 663
• Tenure-track conformity to power precedes and explains academic quietism #contradicts (0.72) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 325