...manner as that authority will permit." Smith believed professors needed incentives: "In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." In modern universities, a corollary of publish or perish is that professors are given monetary incentives...

...and guild companies probably found its origins in his early experience at Oxford: "In the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...for these many years, given up altogether even the pretense of teaching."30 In this case, according to Smith, it resulted in too many people obtaining...

...neighbor may neglect his duty provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own"; one result being that "the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretense of teaching." As a general rule, "the discipline of colleges and universities is one for the...

...neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. 46 The argument appears to suggest that the only ultimate cure of the US university's "cost disease"...

...neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.46 The argument appears to suggest that the only ultimate cure of the US university's "cost...

...those who held chairs. 'In the university of Oxford,' Adam Smith observed, 'the greater part of the professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.' Not until the reforms of the midnineteenth century did Oxbridge habits of work improve.3 By that time,...

...celebrated charge he claimed in 1776 that 'In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the publick professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.' The relaxed academic atmosphere of Oxford was an old theme of Smith's — in a letter of 1740 he wrote...

...Magdalen College: They proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life. . . . the greater part of the public professors have for...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Gibbon, Memoies of My Ltfe, ed. Georges A. Bonnard (London, 1966), 48, 50. Recent scholarship portrays...

...university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors [those with endowed or salaried chairs] have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching."" So no one should neglect Smith's contribution to expository prose and "curious facts." Now as to economic...

...altogether or perform ct in as careless and slovenly manner as he can get away with. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...for these many years, given up altogether even the pretense of teaching (716-18). 6 Many present-day economics professors are avid advocates of market...