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"The greatest paradox of academic work in modern America is that most professors teach most of the time, and large proportions of them teach all the time, but teaching is not the activity most rewarded by the academic profession nor most valued by the system at large," the report states...
Solow is a leading advocate of government intervention to correct the natural imbalances of the marketplace, a strategy that has fallen into disfavor under this Administration. He won his prize for a pioneering 1956 study demonstrating that the rate of technological progress does more to determine an industrialized country's...
The article "was written from a particular point of view," Hokinson responded. "He selected those facts which supported his view, and omitted other facts [the B-school] is definitely not oriented to any particular field or profession in business."
Despite her indignation, Himmelfarb does not want to suppress these new forms; what she opposes is their domination of the profession. Part of the profession, anyway: in the publishing marketplace, traditional history still fares quite well. In the work of historians as diverse as, say, Daniel Boorstin and Barbara Tuchman...
"I took the spring off for personal reasons," Cassell said. "I was trying to figure out what profession I wanted to go into. It was really nice; it worked out that I could play volleyball."