The University Under the Rule of Global Technocracy

Based on interview material collected among academics around the world, The University Under the Rule of Global Technocracy examines the deep causes and conceptual errors of this reformist project and offers a series of alternative proposals.

Carlos Hoevel is Professor of History of Economic and Political Thought and Philosophy of Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.

1. Brief Adornoian Prelude 2. The Big Shift: From the Autonomous University to the Global Academic Industry 3. In the Realm of Performance: Management and Productivism in the Current University 4. A Map of the Academic Industry 5. The Voice of the Discontented: Paradoxes, False Solutions, and New Problems 6. Conceptual Errors of the New Public Management, the Theory of Human Capital, and Economics of Education 7. Root Causes 8. Diagnostics and Alternative Pathways 9. Is It Possible to Recreate Today the Classic Idea of University? 10. Conclusion: Six Tasks for a Renewal from the Sources