Tenure

Tenure is essentially anti-competitive, keeping the academic job market permanently depressed, prevents mobility among productive scholars, and keeps salaries low (as an effect of the above causes).

Tenure trouble? 2009

Tenure is simply a protection so that workers, in this case educators, have their rights protected, particularly their first amendment rights.

Julie Cavanagh: Do Teacher Unions Have the Cooties? Julie Cavanagh 2010

Tenure is one of a very few ways these people are recognised and permitted to make a living doing what they do best: parrot the works of others.

Two Cowenian Tenure Claims, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

(My opinion: Tenure is like belonging to a labor union; it protects the mediocre and incompetent, and restricts the truly excellent and innovative.)

Two Cowenian Tenure Claims, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Tenure is near absolute, unless someone commits some heinous crime.

Matthew Yglesias » Getting to Effectiveness 2009

Tenure is "wonderful" because it infinitesimally raises the job security of the stars, and sharply raises the job security of people who don't produce anything of value anyway.

Two Cowenian Tenure Claims, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Tenure is more like a marriage than passing an exam.

A question of style: Guillermo Gonzalez and the tenure review process 2007

Tenure is extraordinarily powerful job protection.

Balkinization 2007

Tenure is a freaking invitation to this sort of gold-bricking.

Balkinization 2004

Tenure is during good behaviour and subject to expulsion by conviction in impeachment.

Law and Survival 1966