Education is riddled with market failures. We know so. We teach this. This reality calls for non-market interventions. It screams for democratization. What shape and form democratization should take is exactly what ReThink is currently discussing. We should therefore not stay silent anymore, if only because rethinking the academic enterprise is too important to be left entirely to non-economists. Everybody should engage. In the end, Dutch economist Hennipman taught at the UvA’s economics faculty that taking a broad welfare perspective implies that profit is not the same as welfare. That made Hennipman a critic of rendementsdenken avant-la-lettre. Of course, many economics departments -including UvA- already don’t teach the history of economics anymore, so we also don’t teach Hennipman. The irony is that his lesson is one that we cannot afford to forget.
Schlagwort: Wissenschaft
ReTeach.
Perverscience.
According to these scientists, competition contributes to strategic game-playing in science, a decline in free and open sharing of information and methods, sabotage of others’ ability to use one’s work, interference with peer-review processes, deformation of relationships, and careless or questionable research conduct. When competition is pervasive, such effects may jeopardize the progress, efficiency and integrity of science.
Non-sense is Freedom. Literally.
This last is, perhaps, my most anti-utilitarian opinion: I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist – all that is commonly called Science – to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made.
Bertrand Russell - Autobiography
Acad€mia.
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Knowledge is Power.
Part of my goal in writing this article is to shine a bright light on the gender stereotypes hidden within the scientific language of biology. Exposed in such a light, I hope they will lose much of their power to harm us.