Category: Academic freedom
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Nice discussion of Philip Mirowski’s Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste here. The first half of the book theorizes neo-liberalism from a Foucaultian perspective and the second half excoriates the economics profession, e.g. According to Mirowski, there was a moment after the 2008 crash when the economics profession could have performed some rigorous self-criticism…
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Next week, I will be speaking at a career development workshop for female Oxford graduate and masters students. One of the things I want to focus on is the importance of building out a broad, strong, supportive professional network. Academia is built on trust and personal relationships. Rarely are people invited as speakers at conferences,…
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My six year old Thomas is reading Star Wars books designed for six year olds. He's actually very good at it, but he does consistently misread the word "universe" as "university." Since it occurs quite a lot in these books, he's constantly telling me things like the following: My name is Qui-Gon Jinn. I am…
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