Economics, competition and academia
Subtitle: an intellectual history of sophism versus virtue
By: Donald R. Stabile.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847202369
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Sociological aspects.; Business and education -- United States.; Education, Greek.; Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: markets, competition and higher education; title: Sophism and virtue; title: Markets and academia; title: The endowment model; title: The tuition-driven model; title: The combined model; title: Overview; title: Conclusion; title: Sophism, academia and Greek economics; title: The sophists and fee-based education; title: The sophists and competition; title: Plato downplays the market; title: Aristotle and the economics of moderation; title: Plato, the academy and virtue; title: Aristotle's lyceum and the endowment model; title: Virtue or sophism in Greek education; title: Conclusion; title: Adam Smith and sophism: reaction to the endowment Model; title: St. Thomas Aquinas and the economics of virtue; title: The endowment model at Oxford; title: Adam Smith: markets and natural acquisition; title: Smith and virtue; title: Adam smith: sophism and higher education; title: Conclusion; title: Virtue and early academia in the US; title: Early colleges, virtue and the endowment model; title: Benjamin Rush and sophism; title: Economics and education: Jeremy Bentham; title: Virtue: the Yale report of 1828; title: Francis Wayland and the economics of sophism; title: Conclusion; title: Academia and the rise of capitalism in the US; title: Economics and education: John Stuart Mill; title: Land-grant universities and public endowment; title: Propriety law schools: a failed experiment in sophism; title: The comprehensive university and private endowment; title: Eliot and electives at Harvard: the triumph of competition; title: Opposition to electives: the regulated market; title: Electives and competition; title: Conclusion; title: Corporate capitalism and the university as a business; title: Marshall, marginalism and markets: the new sophism; title: Eliot: academia is not a business; title: Morris L. Cooke: the scientific measure of sophism; title: Thorstein Veblen and institutional economics; title: Veblen and academia as a business; title: Conclusion; title: Collegiate business schools in the US: sophism or virtue; title: The collegiate study of business; title: Undergraduate business schools; title: Graduate business education; title: Thorstein Veblen: business schools as sophism; title: Business schools respond with virtue; title: Abraham Flexner: the attack on sophism; title: The defense of sophism; title: The endowment model helps collegiate business schools grow in the 20th century; title: John Kenneth Galbraith defends virtue; title: Conclusion; title: Academia in transition: the road to sophism; title: From sophism to virtue; title: The decline of the endowment model; title: The for-profit college and sophism; title: The road to sophism?