March 23, 2007
The Freakonomics of Tenure
The ever-simmering question of whether the tenure system should be reformed recently lit up the blogosphere, ignited by an online essay from the (tenured) professor Steven D. Levitt, co-author of the publishing phenomenon Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything and the popular blog Freakonomics. When Levitt posted "Let's Just Get Rid of Tenure (Including Mine)" this month, proposing an end to tenure in economics, discussion erupted on his own blog and
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