Comments on: TCS Daily – How Wal-Mart Is Like Academia http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/tcs_daily_-_how_wal-mart_is_like_academia/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:38:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: nfn fnke http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/tcs_daily_-_how_wal-mart_is_like_academia/comment-page-1/#comment-71810 nfn fnke Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:22:18 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/13450#comment-71810 Your analysis more or less mimics Cary Nelson's <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/publicaffairs/newsreleases/b_tenure.shtml" rel="nofollow">Confession of a Tenured Radical</a>. Your analysis more or less mimics Cary Nelson's Confession of a Tenured Radical.

]]> By: Steven Taylor http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/tcs_daily_-_how_wal-mart_is_like_academia/comment-page-1/#comment-71770 Steven Taylor Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:41:54 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/13450#comment-71770 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. 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.

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