L'économie académique, son recrutement professoral

Abstract

Jean-Claude Delaunay, Academic Economics and its Recruitment of Professors ; If, as always, economic knowledge is politically oriented, it has become more and more technical. The professorial caste of university economists controls entry into the profession by applying both political and technical criteria. The national competition for recruitment into the French national education system is organized in relation to these two criteria. It is on this basis that the professorial rank as a corporate entity prepares the cohorts of « experts » who are called upon outside the university to engage in political discussion and, in this way, serve and justify the interests of elite social interests in the name of the general interest.