“…Given that the conceptual arguments provided by Block & Dauterive (2007) represent the only contribution in this area to the economics literature of which we are aware, study of the impact of modern iterations of critical theory and its outgrowth of political correctness on higher education in the U.S. is certainly under-theorized. Our economic model not only addresses this void in the literature, it also contributes to a growing body of recent economic approaches to a number of other unique issues facing academe, such as workplace mobbing (Faria, Mixon Jr., & Salter, 2012;Muazzam, Anjum, & Visvizi, 2020), controversial forms of financing education (Mixon Jr., 2019), and difficulties associated with internal labor markets in higher education (Faria & Mixon Jr., 2020;Pelegrini & França, 2020), among others.…”