Re: [Pen-l] The Uneasy Relationship between Business and the Humanities

[Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

The article misses the key innovation of business/university
interaction in the first half of the 20th century. It was not
individual critics whose impact depended on the persuasiveness or
popularity of their arguments but organized pressure groups -- like the
National Association of Manufacturers and the US Chamber of Commerce --
who called the tune because they could bring to bear substantial
budgets and a bureaucratized operation.

The academic discipline of economics was indelibly shaped by the
millions upon millions of pieces of "educational literature"
distributed by the free enterprise tub-thumpers, by the elaborate
campaigns of textbook suppression and subscription and through
revolving door  recruitment of right-thinkng professors.

On 6/11/08, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This article titled "The Uneasy Relationship between Business and the Humanities" became chapter one of Frank Donoghue's "The Last Professors":

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_academic/issues/june04/Donoghue.qxp.pdf

Early Criticism of the Liberal Arts from Corporate Critics

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Sandwichman
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