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The University Under the Rule of Global Technocracy: Rise and Fall of the Academic Industry book cover

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The University Under the Rule of Global Technocracy Rise and Fall of the Academic Industry

By Carlos Hoevel Copyright 2025
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the radical reform experienced by universities worldwide, as reformers, inspired by extreme economic thinking, seek to transform the university into part of a global academic industry. With attention to the implied passage from a focus on education and the advancement of knowledge, to an emphasis on the provision of human capital and economic benefits, the author describes the... Read more

1. Brief Adornoian Prelude  2. The Big Shift: From the Autonomous University to the Global Academic Industry  3. In the Realm of Performance: Management and Productivism in the Current University  4. A Map of the Academic Industry  5. The Voice of the Discontented: Paradoxes, False Solutions, and New Problems  6. Conceptual Errors of the New Public Management, the Theory of Human Capital, and Economics of Education  7. Root Causes  8. Diagnostics and Alternative Pathways  9. Is It Possible to Recreate Today the Classic Idea of University?  10. Conclusion: Six Tasks for a Renewal from the Sources

Biography

Carlos Hoevel is Professor of History of Economic and Political Thought and Philosophy of Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.

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