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Most adjuncts are in the business of selling their services to effective monopsonies. Oligopolies, at best. Free market economics don’t exonerate the result.
by arkades 7y ago
Most adjuncts are in the business of selling their services to effective monopsonies. Oligopolies, at best. Free market economics don’t exonerate the result.
- xref 7y agoI don’t agree with the parent but calling the educational system a monopsony sounds even less believable, there are tens of thousands of educational institutions in America alone
- arkades 7y agoMost adjuncts - heck, most people - are not capable of moving around the country chasing low-paying, often part-time jobs. When you’re geographically locked, the universities become effective monopsonies everywhere but NY, Boston, etc