I’m writing an open ended revue of the effects of academic tenure on the labor market in education for a class. Any suggestions on sources to start off my research?
This came to mind:
McGee, Robert W. and Walter Block, “Academic Tenure: A Law and Economics Analysis,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 1991, pp. 545-563.
No suggestions but great topic. I think tenure is privilege. Please update us on this project.
Any way I can get access to this article? Having trouble finding it.
But if it was completely voluntary you’d be okay with it, right? [;)]
If it is voluntary, it is not privilege. It is exclusion.
I think he meant that the tenure system is voluntarily submitted to by all involved parties.
You realize that server is passworded…
I know exactly what he meant, because his favourite philosopher is tenured.
Tenure, even if voluntary is still restricting competition and depressing the market for competition in education. It’s anti-market behaviour, just as voluntary communism or voluntary unionism is anti-market behaviour.
Has there ever been a free institution with tenured staff?
Ah, but how do you as a libertarian oppose voluntary anti-market behavior? How can it be wrong if it doesn’t violate the NAP?
Seems like you’re just imposing your own social preferences. What happened to live and let live?
Where did I say I oppose it?
Where did I say it was wrong?
Interesting conclusions you drew from what I wrote. Are you implying that we should oppose anti-market behaviour because it is wrong?
I have imposed nothing. I am simply calling a spade a spade. The purpose of tenure is to limit competition.
I have no problem with that. I just find it ironic when radical [sic] libertrians verbalize the market but act like protectionists.
Sorry, that is strange. I just assumed it was similar to another paper I had read by him. I’ve found it now, but it might not be as much about tenure as I hoped. It is worth reading nonetheless. link
Broken link…