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The preliminary sketches for this updated self-portrait are under way, revealing five broad shifts in how we can best depict our economic selves. First, rather than narrowly self-interested we are social and reciprocating. Second, in place of fixed preferences, we have fluid values. Third, instead of isolated we are interdependent. Fourth, rather than calculate, we usually approximate. And fifth, far from having dominion over nature, we are deeply embedded in the web of life.

Doughnut Economics

Kate Raworth

while productivity is not in itself a damaging aim for workers, deep analysis of time-management self-help reveals how striving for personal greatness normalizes the asociality of professional aspiration. In the resource-depleted organization, the ultimate effect of career-oriented athleticism is to render all colleagues competitors.

Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy

Melissa Gregg

Academic degrees are often depicted as certificates of accumulated knowledge—or ‘human capital’ (Becker 1964)—or as signals of intelligence or hard work (Spence 1973): the labour market would thus naturally reward the most-qualified or hard-working individuals with the highest occupations. And yet, this common sense interpretation overlooks the role of networking or loyalty to a firm in career trajectories and cannot make sense of cases of unqualified or poorly qualified CEOs.

Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality

Surinder S. Jodhka, Jules Naudet

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