The business school only teaches one form of organising – market managerialism.
Economics
Renegade Inc: Everything you think you know about the financial crisis is wrong
“Without deep pockets and a structured network to carry your ideas, the left and heterodox economists are up against one of the most well-funded ideologies in the world.” Read here
EU politics
Al Jazeera: Spain makes U-turn, will now sell 400 missiles to Saudi Arabia
Social Democrats simply cannot change their spots. First magnanimously declare that you are not selling weapons to a criminal dictatorship, enjoy the accolades, then kick human rights in the teeth. Read here
Corruption
EcoWatch: EU Approval of Glyphosate Based on Review That Plagiarized Monsanto Studies
This is something the German government does often at the EU. It is called Regulatory Capture. It shows how confident the German government is that its interests will be followed unquestioned by an obedient EU. […]
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.