Education Review recently published a review of Academic Capitalism and the New Economy by Shelia Slaughter and Gary Rhoades.
Rhoades is a General Editor and Slaughter is a member of the Editorial Collective of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor.
Slaughter, Sheila and Rhoades, Gary. (2004). Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State and Higher Education. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Pp. xii +370
$39.95 ISBN 0-8018-7949-3
Reviewed by Rebecca Barber
Arizona State University
January 3, 2006
Commercialism in higher education is not a new topic; it has been covered by a number of authors focusing on research (Etzkowitz, Webster & Healey (1998)), interaction with industry (Soley (1995)), marketing (Kirp (2003)), and sports-related commercial ventures (Sperber (2000)). This book, however, takes a different and more sophisticated approach.
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