Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University

This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations as well as how these transitions are indicative of the wider shift from the welfare to the market state. The university is now considered a key site for training and wealth generation in the so-called 'knowledge economy' that operates in a globalising, high tech world. Further, these transitions are underpinned by neo-liberal economic ideas that assume that the public sector is a drag on the economy unless it is subject to the rules, regulations and assumptions that govern the private sector. This excellent volume -- an important contribution to Education as well as Economics and Politics -- furthers our understandings of universities as marketisable entities as part of the globalized economy.Canaan, Joyce E. is the author of 'Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415956727 and ISBN 0415956722.