A key question that arises is how Academic Capitalism affects the autonomy of the

academic work?
This further raises a series of issues about the promotion, development and eventual
commodification of HE, including:
who is promoting Academic Capitalism and setting societal priorities and policies;
what kind of academic work is getting funded and why;
how different programs are being restructured to better suit market ideology;
how is existing infrastructure influencing the future institutional development?
Altogether, such issues highlight the uncertainty underlying the Academic Capitalism in
countries like Canada and the need to know how this marketization of knowledge and education
is being imagined and implemented.
This paper answers these questions and the issues related to them. It analyzes the
policies, narratives and priorities underpinning Academic Capitalism in HE institutions in
Canada
It further examines how different social actors (e.g. government, academic and nonacademic staff, students, temporary teaching assistants, publishing companies etc.) shape the
development and commercialization of HE.
Moreover, this paper will also identify the constraints on keeping the market out of the
HE institutions.
And it will conclusively suggest that introduction of academic capitalism affects the
academics (scholars and students) and the autonomy of their work negatively.