FROM THE ARCHIVES: What we are witnessing is the sharpening of a long-standing conflict between academia and an ascendant Zeitgeist that affirms material productivity and economic competitiveness over all other human ends, and that celebrates the all-purpose managerial acumen of the corporate leader. In my lifetime, we’ve gone from dismissing corporate muckety-mucks as conformists in gray flannel suits to counting business success as the reliable sign of the ability to lead any enterprise at all, right on up to the Free World. One by one, institutions that were not regarded as businesses have been remade in accordance with the techniques and priorities of the business manager.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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