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Download the attached file below for our reading for the 4th meeting - the first chapter of Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, which gives a good overview of the key characteristics of the contemporary economy - "its global scope, its treatment of knowledge as raw material, its non-Fordist production processes, and its need for educated workers and consumers" - and how universities have integrated with these processes.

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