A Worthwhile Academic Life

Clive Spash

Environmental Values, 2008, vol. 17, issue 2, 121-124

Abstract: The good academic life is a hard one to follow and has become no easier in the past 50 years. Each academic is now to be treated as if a small business enterprise. Expectations are that accounts will be kept of all activities which are to be listed and weighed-up for net worth and value added. Inputs will be judged as wasted if outputs are insufficient or not of the 'right sort', e.g., articles in appropriate journals. Of course what is right becomes what is measurable, e.g., citations. Measures become goals and regulatory devices; so soon there is no academic freedom at all, just inputs, outputs and targets. This introductory editorial to Environmental Values examines Alan Holland's work in the above context.

Keywords: Alan Holland; appreciation; academic targets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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