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<title>The Summers Controversy and University Governance</title>
<link>http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/02/the_summers_con_1.html</link>
<description>We return this week to the Larry Summers controversy, not to rehash the points in the earlier postings and comments, but to consider the larger issues of university governance that the controversy raises. On these larger issues, Becker and I...</description>
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<title>Who Should Run A University?</title>
<link>http://industrialrelations.typepad.com/unionsfirmsmarkets/2005/02/who_should_run_.html</link>
<description> Gary Becker and Richard Posner have a new post on the recent controversy at Harvard. They explore an interesting angle on the story by wondering who should control the university (similar to the syndicalist argument that the factory should</description>
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<title>Summers Opposition and the Business Model of Higher Education:  Should Faculty Be “Employees?”
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<link>http://exparte.powerblogs.com/posts/1109640345.shtml</link>
<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/02/the_summers_con_1.html">Posner</a> this week discusses the Summers controversy as it relates to the larger issue of university governance. The opposition to Summers has come from professors in...]]></description>
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<title>Who owns universities?</title>
<link>http://busmovie.typepad.com/ideoblog/2005/02/who_owns_univer.html</link>
<description>The Larry Summers flap leads Becker and Posner to this question. Like it or not, the workers (i.e., the faculty) seem to be in charge. Becker is content with this because US universities have done well in open international competition.</description>
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<title>Posner: The Summers Controversy and University Governance</title>
<link>http://www.dummocrats.com/links/?d=2005-02-28</link>
<description>Posner: The Summers Controversy and University Governance</description>
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