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Most business schools exist as parts of universities, and universities are generally understood as institutions with responsibilities to the societies they serve. Why then do we assume that degrees in business should only teach one form of organization – capitalism – as if that were the only way in which human life could be arranged?
Shut Down the Business School
Martin Parker
The familiar conception, the Galbraithean way, makes assumptions peculiarly appropriate to market economies: that man’s wants are great, not to say infinite, whereas his means are limited, although improvable: thus, the gap between means and ends can be narrowed by industrial productivity, at least to the point that “urgent goods” become plentiful. But __there is also a Zen road to affluence, departing from premises somewhat different from our own: that human material wants are finite and few, and technical means unchanging but on the whole adequate. Adopting the Zen strategy, a people can enjoy an unparalleled material plenty—with a low standard of living.__
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
‘policy making is not only about solving public problems, but about how groups are formed, split, and re-formed to achieve public purposes’.
The Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Stephen Elstub and Oliver Escobar
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