>(2) I am beginning to doubt that "worker managed firm" >describes the university. I'm not faculty (yet!) but from what >I understand, the university administration has great >power in the university. If they want, administrators can change >standards for tenure and cut budgets and they control the >physical plant, and other stuff. The "worker managed lable" >applies just to the department. There is no reason the administration >has to allow tenure to exist. > >Fabio
My point was not that we had tenure because the department was a worker managed firm and the workers wanted tenure. My conjecture was that we had tenure because tenure is at least sometimes efficient in a worker managed firm. If so, the university administrators might support tenure because they want the professors to spend more time on teaching and research and less on departmental politics. -- David Friedman Professor of Law Santa Clara University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
