I'm writing an open ended revue of the effects of academic tenure on the labor market in education for a class. Any suggestions on sources to start off my research?
This came to mind:
McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block, “Academic Tenure: A Law and Economics Analysis,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 1991, pp. 545-563.
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No suggestions but great topic. I think tenure is privilege. Please update us on this project.
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Any way I can get access to this article? Having trouble finding it.
liberty student:I think tenure is privilege.
But if it was completely voluntary you'd be okay with it, right?
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Sage:But if it was completely voluntary you'd be okay with it, right?
If it is voluntary, it is not privilege. It is exclusion.
I think he meant that the tenure system is voluntarily submitted to by all involved parties.
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AJ:I think he meant that the tenure system is voluntarily submitted to by all involved parties.
I know exactly what he meant, because his favourite philosopher is tenured.
Tenure, even if voluntary is still restricting competition and depressing the market for competition in education. It's anti-market behaviour, just as voluntary communism or voluntary unionism is anti-market behaviour.
Has there ever been a free institution with tenured staff?
liberty student:Tenure, even if voluntary is still restricting competition and depressing the market for competition in education. It's anti-market behaviour, just as voluntary communism or voluntary unionism is anti-market behaviour.
Ah, but how do you as a libertarian oppose voluntary anti-market behavior? How can it be wrong if it doesn't violate the NAP?
Seems like you're just imposing your own social preferences. What happened to live and let live?
Sage:Ah, but how do you as a libertarian oppose voluntary anti-market behavior?
Where did I say I oppose it?
Sage:How can it be wrong if it doesn't violate the NAP?
Where did I say it was wrong?
Interesting conclusions you drew from what I wrote. Are you implying that we should oppose anti-market behaviour because it is wrong?
Sage:Seems like you're just imposing your own social preferences.
I have imposed nothing. I am simply calling a spade a spade. The purpose of tenure is to limit competition.
Sage:What happened to live and let live?
I have no problem with that. I just find it ironic when radical [sic] libertrians verbalize the market but act like protectionists.
Caley McKibbin: Has there ever been a free institution with tenured staff?
Sorry, that is strange. I just assumed it was similar to another paper I had read by him. I've found it now, but it might not be as much about tenure as I hoped. It is worth reading nonetheless. link
E. R. Olovetto: Sorry, that is strange. I just assumed it was similar to another paper I had read by him. I've found it now, but it might not be as much about tenure as I hoped. It is worth reading nonetheless. link
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