Re: Extra-national academics

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In article <236@landmark.DIALix.oz.au>,
Gil Hardwick <gil@landmark.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:
[remarks on academics of
one nationality holding
positions in institutions
of a different country]
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>If this practice is widespread yet in the reality manages to achieve
>little more than catering to the restless whim of individuals wanting
>to make money and enhance their own prospects, how are we to maintain
>the integrity of established knowledge?
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In fact, the claim is that this *promotes* "the integrity of
established knowledge". I understand how alien the idea sounds
in some settings, but it's another application of the "invisi-
ble hand" insights (or ideology) that we typically trace through
Smith: the restlessness and whimsy of individual academics
deciding for themselves where to decamp serve to test, and there-
fore strengthen, "established knowledge."

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