The recent article, In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth, from the New York Times, has elicited some interesting responses.
The first one I saw, and the one that lead me to the article is from HASTAC’s Cathy Davidson and begins:
Really. Because the economy is bad, WE have to justify OUR worth? I don’t [...]
This quarter page advertisement recently ran in the Wall Street Journal:
Before we get too excited about chemistry’s boon to our GDP, we should understand what GDP means.“The GDP merely tallies monetary transactions on an annual basis. It makes no distinction between economic transactions that add to-or diminish-our societal well-being.” (from Redefining Progress) The video below [...]
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