#neoliberalism

research + market incentives. What could possibly go wrong?

US elite universities – the Ivies – are a cartel that uses its monopoly to reproduce its monopoly, to the detriment of the rest of us.

I see all these people in position of power coming from doing PPE [Politics, Philosophy and Economics] at Oxford University or similar. They are trained in the debating societies to argue anything, and the opposite, within 5 minutes. They are very eloquent. When I first came to the UK, I thought, as an academic, ‘how interesting, how witty, how intelligent!’  But it has actually been devastating.