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TCS Daily – How Wal-Mart Is Like Academia

James Joyner · Friday, January 27, 2006 · 2 comments

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.

FILED UNDER: Economics and Business, Education, Published Elsewhere, Uncategorized, academia, Walmart

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

Steven Taylor says:

Friday, 27 January 2006 at 07:41

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.
nfn fnke says:

Friday, 27 January 2006 at 15:22

Your analysis more or less mimics Cary Nelson’s Confession of a Tenured Radical.