The business school only teaches one form of organising – market managerialism.
EU politics
Investigate Europe: Where have all the mothers gone?
The Country of Silent Tears: Economic migrant families from Romania have paid for decent earnings with anxiety and tears of the nation’s children. Investigate Europe is made up of nine experienced journalists from eight European […]
Economics
Prospect Magazine – Back to school: 13 top economists on the one idea economics still has to learn
There are some good bits and pieces in here. Read here
Economics
Romania-Insider.com – Eurostat: Half of Romania’s population suffers from material and social deprivation
The economic plan behind the EU was convergence. As this article demonstrates, this is not happening on the Eastern and Southern peripheries. No wonder the Romanians keep taking to the streets in protest – or […]
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.