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Enough Is Enough…of This Failed Experiment of ‘Killing the Host’

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Drawing from the work of economist Michael Hudson, this chapter follows his argument as to how the financial parasites and their predatory ideology are destroying the global economy. In like manner, this chapter argues that the totally dependent practices of neoliberalism that have been allowed to invade universities, are diverting and consuming unconscionable proportions of resources from the core activities of teaching and research. We then hear this refrain again, this time through the ‘voices of the academy’, through a sojourn into the titles of over 100 scholarly tomes, from dissident academics who are standing up and speaking out about the extent and depth of the problem and making a claim to regain ownership of their academic work.

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Smyth, J. (2017). Enough Is Enough…of This Failed Experiment of ‘Killing the Host’. In: The Toxic University. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54968-6_8

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