Posts by Kim Krawiec

A few days ago, in My Tenure’s For Sale. How About Yours?, I blogged about the purported costs and benefits of tenure, and the extra salary I would demand in…

This week, Becker and Posner take on the Obama administration’s “Pay Czar,” with predictably critical reactions.  Posner, in particular, discusses an issue near and dear to my own heart (see…

What’s the minimum that you would accept to give up tenure?  Steve Levitt’s asking price is only $15,000, on the rationale that “the value of tenure is inversely related to…

Many thanks to Al, Dan, and the rest of the Faculty Lounge gang for letting me hang out with them for a while.  Here in Chapel Hill, I have the…