Globalization, Economics, and the University

For those interested in the effects of globalization on economies and institutions, you might find Rector, Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile, Manfred Max-Neef's conference speech, published as a chapter titled "ECONOMY, HUMANISM AND NEOLIBERALISM" in People's Participation: Challenges Ahead to be of interest. As an educator, it makes one inevitably wonder about the state of things like higher education institutions. If ever there was an exigency to defend the relevancy of the humanities and social sciences, we may have found it in the emergent dialogues about globalization.