There’s also been (at least for public institutions) a deliberate pivot away from the mission as we treat higher ed like a for-profit business. All these restructuring exercises based on ROI, closing key departments in the humanities, etc., are not mission-driven decisions.

He derives it from ‘Malthouse’.

Keynes was saying what it *ought* to be, which suggests to me that it’s what it wasn’t!

The joke - if Keynes is correct - is etymologically spot-on.

"He got among a set of men who did nothing but smoke and drink beer. Malthusians, we call them."

"Malthusians!"

"'Malt,' you know, aunt, and 'use;' meaning that they drink beer."

(I get far too excited about this sort of thing)

Ooh! What is it?

This is something of a research interest of mine (admittedly not re ‘Malthus’): the ‘correct’ pronunciation of proper names and what that may signify when works are read aloud.

Keynes’s comments in Essays in Biography would suggest that it clearly *wasn’t* usually pronounced ‘correctly’ in his day.

According to Keynes, ‘Maultus’ (‘with the first vowel as in brewer’s malt and the h doubtfully sounded’).

But also that any student of mine who answered ‘Yes’ to that question would make me feel I’d failed.

If we’re not teaching them that that answer can only be ‘No’, what *are* we teaching?

I just hope I can find a copy of my proposal somewhere in my files…

I’m not interested in football, but that’s one of the very few goals seared into my memory.

kudos for the curator who decided Kenneth Williams was more culturally significant than Richard Burton.

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