Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education

by Lawrence Busch

Book Overview

How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.

A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less immediate market value. Every other kind...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262549263
• ISBN13: 9780262549264
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher