social science production (was: Dark Sides of 'Solidarity'?)

Richard Marens parvus at u.washington.edu
Sat May 9 20:39:28 PDT 1998


actually Dennis, while law professors do well, management professors do slightly better, and finance professors do best of all (except Medicine), in keeping, I suppose, with our current stage in the ole' Krondratief cycle.

On Sat, 9 May 1998, Dennis R Redmond wrote:


> On Sat, 9 May 1998, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > While economists and business majors produce + reproduce human capital
> > explanations, sociologists and public policy types maintain the underclass
> > thoery, and they reinforce each other nicely. Efficiency through
> > ideological division of labor!
>
> The upper middle-class markets the overclass, and the lower middle-class
> markets the underclass, eh? It does explain why econs and B-major profs
> get paid 20-40% more than the soc folks. But the highest paid profs at the
> U of O happen to be -- at, ye pits of iniquity! -- the lawyers, presumably
> because they get their cut from the marketing of the rules of marketing.
>
> -- Dennis
>
>



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