{"id":66466,"date":"2018-04-02T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66466"},"modified":"2018-03-30T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:31:09","slug":"market-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66466","title":{"rendered":"Market Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Academia is a vast holdout against the free market in countless ways, it appears to be exerting\u00a0<em>some\u00a0<\/em>hint of market discipline in at least one case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s take on the speaking circuit is not even on par with a reality TV star like Nicole \u201cSnooki\u201d Polizzi,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/entertainment\/index.ssf\/2018\/03\/hillary_clinton_25k_rutgers_speech_snooki.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nj.com reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton reportedly received $25,000 for a Thursday speech at historic Rutgers University that promised the skinny on \u201cpolitics, American democracy and her role in shaping women\u2019s political history,\u201d but Snooki, of \u201cJersey Shore\u201d fame\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2011\/03\/snookis_advice_to_rutgers_stud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picked up a $32,000 pay check<\/a>\u00a0for her analysis of American academia, suggesting that potential graduates \u201cstudy hard, but party harder.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Snooki may actually bring more value to students&#8217; lives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s take on the speaking circuit is not even on par with a reality TV star like Nicole \u201cSnooki\u201d Polizzi,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/entertainment\/index.ssf\/2018\/03\/hillary_clinton_25k_rutgers_speech_snooki.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nj.com reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton reportedly received $25,000 for a Thursday speech at historic Rutgers University that promised the skinny on \u201cpolitics, American democracy and her role in shaping women\u2019s political history,\u201d but Snooki, of \u201cJersey Shore\u201d fame\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2011\/03\/snookis_advice_to_rutgers_stud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picked up a $32,000 pay check<\/a>\u00a0for her analysis of American academia, suggesting that potential graduates \u201cstudy hard, but party harder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Academia is a vast holdout against the free market in countless ways, it appears to be exerting\u00a0some\u00a0hint of market discipline in at least one case: Hillary Clinton\u2019s take on the speaking circuit is not even on par with a reality TV star like Nicole \u201cSnooki\u201d Polizzi,\u00a0nj.com reports. Clinton reportedly received $25,000 for a Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-leftymoney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66467,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66466\/revisions\/66467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}