ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part discusses monetary value that was politically convenient and underpinned economic social choice theory and games theory leading to forms of collective hardship and precarity engineered by shifty neoliberal policies of austerity. It addresses what has been devalued and most feared by research and education that has been driven by neoliberal, neoconservative and corporatist policy: the creative powers, the life, the dreams of ordinary people in its emergence as an effective public. The part argues that an effective public is coextensive with education and the production of research-based knowledge. It also argues that education and research as a function of public intelligence is constituted as a condition to avoid democracy being reduced to a spectator sport, where audiences cheer on the antics of their preferred players.
