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London England: The Institute of Economic Affairs. Beyond Universities: A New Republic of the Intellect (Hobart Papers). Universities in the UK have traditionally operated under a common system which institutionalises important restrictive practices. They have operated in a cartel whose output has been regulated by government. The individual firms (i.e. universities) are allocated quotas of students by government, and fees and salaeries are set in ways that are typical of a classic cartel. The university cartel is underpinned by a further monopoloy, granted as of right to each university. In the UK nobody can award degrees unless empowered to do so by royal charter or by the Secretary of State for Education and Science. Professor Sir Douglas Hague takes this argument a stage further by stating that the current stage of economic development is strongly based on the acquisition, analysis and transmission of information and on its application. Universities will therefore be forced to share, or even give…
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- Title Beyond Universities
- Author D. C. Hague
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Paperback
- Pages 86
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Institute of Economic Affairs, London
- Date May 1996
- ISBN 9780255362443 / 0255362447
- Dimensions 8.66 x 5.35 x 0.35 in (22.00 x 13.59 x 0.89 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 370
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Beyond Universities : A New Republic of the Intellect (Hobart Papers)
by Sir Doulas Hague
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