Understanding this history is pressing in light of present-day concerns about “the neoliberal university” and the shift from permanent faculty to adjunct labor, the restructuring of funding in pursuit of patents and other marketable research outcomes, the pervasive discourses of impact, customer (student) experience, and realignment to forms of training rewarded by high post-graduate salaries.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 35