The Academy in Crisis: Political Economy of Higher Education

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John Sommer
Routledge, 4 mai 2018 - 340 pages
The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes. Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of American Universities.
 

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Part I
The Political Context of Higher Education in
A History and Critical Analysis
Higher Education the Individual and the Humane Sciences
Introduction to Part II
The Economics of Higher Education
The Economics of Fundamental Research
Property Rights in Academe
Normative and Positive Theories of Science and Technology Policy
Science and Technology for Economic Ends
Universities and the Training of Scientists
About the Contributors
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