The Political Economy of Higher Education, pt 2

Mechanical Freak

Friends of the show Ryan Archibald and Brendan McElmeel are back to finish our discussion of the Byzantine structure of higher education institutions. We uncover the rot at that core of higher education and, guess what, it’s the same rot that is hollowing out everything in America!

Want to learn more about the onset of neoliberalism? Check out Ending the Myth!
https://www.mechanicalfreak.website/podcast/episodes/ending-the-myth-ep-23-rollback-pt-2-neoliberalism

Want to learn more about the way that neoliberalism has hollowed out higher education, see the work of Chris Newfield: https://chrisnewfield.org/?page_id=93

For more on the Byzantine funding of the university system, see The Dig podcast’s interview with Dennis Hogan: https://thedigradio.com/podcast/higher-ed-crisis-w-dennis-hogan/

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