Showing posts with label neoliberalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neoliberalism. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2024

The Roaring 2020's: For-Profit Education and Incarceration Profit from Trump Win

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American investors are betting heavily on for-profit online education and mass incarceration. Shares of LRN (Stride), a company that operate...
Friday, November 8, 2024

How US Colleges Became Corporations (Second Thought)

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

College Inc. Redux is Overdue

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We desperately need a PBS Frontline updating of College Inc. This 2010 documentary by Martin Smith and Rain Media took us behind the...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

AI-ROBOT CAPITALISTS WILL DESTROY THE HUMAN ECONOMY (Randall Collins)

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[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Randall Collins' blog The Sociological Eye .] Let us assume Artificial Intelligence...
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Monday, September 6, 2021

The Tragedy of Human Capital Theory in Higher Education (Glen McGhee*)

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Related article:  The College Dream is Over (Gary Roth) Related article: When College Choice is a Fraud Related article: The Higher Educatio...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

The Business of Higher Education

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Higher education is a multi-trillion dollar industry in the US, if you include endowments, land, and other investments.  Journalists and pol...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

The US Working-Class Depression: "Let's all pretend we couldn't see it coming."

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How is the working-class Depression of 2020 similar to the other 47 financial downturns in US history?  Downturns are frequently precipi...
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