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August 19, 2005
Academics as merit badge collectors
Asymmetrical Information has a great post about academics ...
Many academics of my acquaintance profess to be aghast at the "status seeking" in which their neighbours engage--and yet I have never met anyone as obsessed with collecting professional merit badges as an academic. Nor have I experienced any other organisational culture, even in hyper-competitive consulting or investment banking, in which professional success is so readily confused with personal worth.
"Money money money money" ... maybe that's because the free market isn't at work in the halls of the academy ... tenure ...
Posted at August 19, 2005 08:41 AM | Categories: Free Markets
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