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OverviewAcademics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice. Universities aim to be centers of learning that find the best and brightest students, treat them fairly, and equip them with the knowledge they need to lead better lives. But as Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness show in Cracks in the Ivory Tower, American universities fall far short of this ideal. At almost every level, they find that students, professors, and administrators are guided by self-interest rather than ethical concerns. College bureaucratic structures also often incentivize and reward bad behavior, while disincentivizing and even punishing good behavior. Most students, faculty, and administrators are out to serve themselves and pass their costs onto others. The problems are deep and pervasive: most academic marketing and advertising is semi-fraudulent. To justify their own pay raises and higher budgets, administrators hire expensive and unnecessary staff. Faculty exploit students for tuition dollars through gen-ed requirements. Students hardly learn anything and cheating is pervasive. At every level, academics disguise their pursuit of self-interest with high-faluting moral language. Marshaling an array of data, Brennan and Magness expose many of the ethical failings of academia and in turn reshape our understanding of how such high power institutions run their business. Everyone knows academia is dysfunctional. Brennan and Magness show the problems are worse than anyone realized. Academics have only themselves to blame. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jason Brennan (Flanagan Family Professor, Flanagan Family Professor, Georgetown University) , Phillip Magness (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, American Institute for Economic Research)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.50cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780190846282ISBN 10: 0190846283 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 27 June 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsJason Brennan and Phillip Magness have written an insightful work on what is wrong with higher education...I admire the work the authors have done. Anyone involved in higher education should read this book and take seriously its critiques. * Alexander W. Salter, The Review of Austrian Economics * Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness have written an insightful work on what is wrong with higher education...I admire the work the authors have done. Anyone involved in higher education should read this book and take seriously its critiques. -- Alexander W. Salter, The Review of Austrian Economics Author InformationJason Brennan is the Flanagan Family Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of ten books, including When All Else Fails and In Defense of Openness. Phillip W. Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He is the author of two books and over a dozen scholarly articles on a diverse array of topics, including the economics of slavery, the history of international trade, federal tax policy, economic inequality, and the economic dimensions of higher education. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |