People or Markets: Some Thoughts on Culture and Corporations in the University of the Twenty-First Century

Abstract

Sitting in the dentist's office last spring, I glanced at the March issue of Time magazine. On the cover was an illustration of a hominid face identified as Homo erectus and the words, How Man Began: Fossil Bones from the Dawn of Humanity Are Rewriting the Story of Evolution. My reading of the cover story revealed, however, that it was not bones that were responsible for this revisionist history but the ideology of the marketplace. For in his description of the evidence that produced a shift from an out of Africa theory to a more global multiregional hypothesis, the author explains that humanity arrived by way of competition for survival in several territories. As he puts it: