Matias Vernengo — 'Edupreneurs,' Corporate Universities and Pluralism in Economics

I posted recently on the increasing influence of corporate money in academia, specifically the new Marriner Eccles center funded by the Koch brothers at the University of Utah. The piece by David V. Johnson in the Baffler on this subject is worth reading. As he notes, the new breed of private money goes beyond what they used to do in the past, trying to directly influence what kind of research, the curriculum and what ideas should be disseminated, and, indirectly who should be hired and retained. This is all the more problematic in the context of the retreat of public funding and the rise of the the corporate university, which implies that increasingly money equals voice in academia....

Further crapification of American education.

 The two top universities globally are not in the US any longer this year. Oxford and Cambridge took the top spots. Chinese and Russian universities are moving up the list.

The corporate totalitarians are also going after high school education as well. Their vision is clearly controlling education K-through PhD.

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'Edupreneurs,' Corporate Universities and Pluralism in Economics
Matias Vernengo | Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell University