The business school only teaches one form of organising – market managerialism.
Fake News
Fintan O’Toole: ‘Adults in the room’ are not the resistance – they are Trump collaborators
Yes, this is about Trump and the USA, but mainly in the title. O’Toole addresses a problem that plagues Europe, as many find excuses for being the henchmen and henchwomen of neo-liberalism (“It could be […]
Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: Lessons from the Greek tragedy unlearnt
Inside the Eurozone the creditors have too much power, because they can threaten to cut off money to a member’s banking system or throw you out of the club. The Eurozone has not learnt this […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Uber loses appeal in UK employment rights case
This is further good news for workers in their attempt to regulate the gig economy – something that most governments are not doing. Read here
It was both sad and annoying to read such a poor and ill-informed article in a leading newspaper.The article is so far from the mark that it is laughable and thus annoying in that it feeds the right wing university-bashing that we are currently exposed to. It is sad that some one who draws their income from a Business School should be so aggrieved that he ‘bites the hand that feeds him’. I wonder what the University of Bristol and its Business School think of him. Perhaps a more constructive and informed article discussing the merits and demerits of business and management education, something that this country excels in, would be more welcome and useful. The first response to the article published in the Guardian opens by talking about such education ‘tainting universities root and branch’ and ‘corrupting both the university ethos and managers themselves’. Taken with the original article, this gives an interesting insight into the sort of person that supports Martin Parker’s thesis; both snobbish and anti-expertise, ill-informed and, possibly, xenophobic.