What some (who I won't bother replying to) may rudely label a "rhetorical trick" is actually observation from experience of attending a doctoral program at an ivy league school where "bait and switch" was the order of the day from administration and faculty and students counseled one another with cynical tales about how to get grant funding without doing the work specified in the grant. Years earlier I'd read Randall Collins's book on Credentialism and before that C. Wright Mills. I only encountered Veblen's Higher Learning in America subsequently.
There are several faculty members in the Harvard Economics department whose "scholarship" does not meet the minimum standard of even an earnest attempt at truthful representation. See the following interview with John Campbell, chairman of the Economics Department, from "Inside Job": http://www.youtube.com/embed/AmMISMFN6XQ On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/12/2011 4:47 PM, Sandwichman wrote: > > Harvard is so fundamentally a scam. > > Probably. It has had Stephen Gould, Richard Lewontin, & Richard Levins > on its faculty, which might be considered a redeeming factor. Not all > scams are also technically illegal. > > Carrol > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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