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Organization After an introduction outlining the problems faced by universities in the present period of fiscal retrenchment, section 2 of this monograph examines several arguments for the strengthening of "market incentives" in the operation of Nova Scotia (and other) universities and the gearing of their instruction to the increasing challenge of national economic performance in the new global e [...] This hypothesis can reasonably be reworded as follows: The greater the share of the student/customers' tuition fees in the total revenues of a university, the greater its efficiency. [...] After outlining the problems faced by universities in the present period of fiscal retrenchment, section 2 of this monograph examines several arguments for the strengthening of "market incentives" in the operation of Nova Scotia (and other) universities arid the gearing of their instruction to the increasing challenge of national economic performance in the new global economy. [...] The central function of the classical university was that of providing moral leadership, and the transmission of the heritage and culture of our civilization. [...] Such doubts may be illustrated (a) in terms of the new circumstances that will make competition a reality rather than something that continues to await the deliberations of policy practitioners or "decision makers"; and (b) in terms of the absence of the full vision of market competition, the key condition of which is freedom of entry, a condition that can be predicted to bring forth quite novel i.