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Regarding Professor Lee's post, the same is more or less true in
Taiwan. HOT struggles in both countries partly because the Ministries of
Education largely control the status and incomes in higher education.
The reason for this is the former desire by the military dictatorships
to indoctrinate. After democratization, the top bureaucrats and profs
were without direction but continued to receive lots of cash. The result
was tailor-made for rent-seekers. To institutionalize the rent seeking,
the agents of the new democratic governments installed bureaucratic
rules. Being almost totally unable to independently evaluate quality,
they needed something to count. This was made so much easier by SSCI.
In addition the bureaucratic accounters, the HOT strugglers face the
brute fact that most other economists (their "colleagues"), not being
well-versed in English yet having studied abroad, cannot even read
history of thought papers. This, in turn, is due to the low language
requirements for econ majors of American and European universities,
particularly as they apply to foreign students.
It seems to me that the solution is privatization. You might be
interested in a paper that I sent to the the Taiwan government regarding
the issue. The "progressive"government regarded it as too radical, which
I am sure it is.
http://knight.fcu.edu.tw/~gunning/taiwan/vouchtwn.htm
Pat Gunning
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