TCS Daily – How Wal-Mart Is Like Academia
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James Joyner | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
My latest piece for TCS Daily, “How Wal-Mart Is Like Academia,” is up. It’s an extended version of yesterday’s post on the subject.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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Comments
Kudos: while I thought of academia as soon as I saw those numbers (and before I read your post yesterday), it never occurred to me to try to turn it into a column.
Indeed, I did a quick calculation and the ration of applications to jobs in the Wal*Mart story was actually mroe favorable to the applicants that is the case in many academic jobs.
Posted by Steven Taylor | January 27, 2006 | 07:41 am | Permalink
Your analysis more or less mimics Cary Nelson's Confession of a Tenured Radical.
Posted by nfn fnke | January 27, 2006 | 03:22 pm | Permalink
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