I’d always assumed this factoid which stuck in my brain years ago was misleading, invoking a different sense of ‘publish or perish’ to the modern aphorism. But having intended to check this for years, I just did and it is startlingly similar to the present discourse which is so familiar. It’s hard not to expect the word ‘neoliberalism’ to pop up as you read through this passage:
Available here: https://archive.org/details/sim_sociology-and-social-research_march-april-1928_12_4/page/324/mode/2up
Case, C. M. (1928). Scholarship in sociology. Sociology and Social Research, 12, 323-340.
