The university, state, and market : the political economy of globalization in the Americas / edited by Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres. - Stanford, Calif, : Stanford University Press, 2006. - xxxiii, 360 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Critical theory, globalization, and higher education : political economy and the cul-de-sac of the postmodernist cultural turn / Introduction : globalization and higher education in the Americas / World without war / University in the 21st century : toward a democratic and emancipatory university reform / Academic capitalism and the new economy : privatization as shifting the target of public subsidy in higner education / Reforming the reforms : transformation and crisis in Latin American and Caribbean universities / Globalization and the challenge to national universities in Argentina and Mexico / Latin American identities in transition : a diagnosis of Argentine and Brazilian universities / Brazil's local solutions to global problems / Mexico's estâimulos : faculty compensation based on piecework / Graduate student unionization as a postindustrial social movement : identity, ideology, and the contested US academy / Political economy of higher education in the time of global markets : whither the social responsibility of the university? / Global economy, the state, social movements, and the university : concluding remarks and an agenda for action / Raymond A Morrow -- Carlos Alberto Torres and Robert A. Rhoads -- Noam Chomsky -- Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Gary Rhoads and Sheila Slaughter -- Atilio A. Boron -- Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, and Andrea Brewster -- Marcela Mollis -- Ken Kempner and Ana Loureiro Jurema -- Estela Mara Bensimon and Imanol Ordorika -- Robert A. Rhoads and Gary Rhoades -- Daniel Schugurensky -- Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres. Foreword,

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Education, Higher--Economic aspects--North America.
Education and globalization--North America.
Education, Higher--Economic aspects--Latin America.
Education and globalization--Latin America.
Educación superior--Aspectos económicos--Estados Unidos.
Educación superior--Aspectos económicos--América Latina.

LC 67.68 / U58 2006

338.43378