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After all, if we educate our graduates in the inevitability of tooth-and-claw capitalism, it is hardly surprising that we end up with justifications for massive salary payments to people who take huge risks with other people’s money. If we teach that there is nothing else below the bottom line, then ideas about sustainability, diversity, stakeholders, responsibility and so on become mere decoration.

Shut Down the Business School

Martin Parker

Advocates of climate economics also argue that policy instruments such as tradeable permits or carbon taxes are necessary to unleash the power of incentives and market exchange to promote emissions reductions efficiently, as if transitioning from an unsustainable pathway at least cost is more important than transitioning well before passing non-linear thresholds that carry potentially cataclysmic consequences.

Ways Not to Think About Climate Change

Kysar, Doug

First, neoliberalism is one political project among many – and has to find ways of coming to terms, or co-habiting with, others (in alliances, or through incorporation or subordination). Second, political projects are, in part, attempts to overcome previous problems (contradictions, resistances, refusals, disjunctures). Resistance shouldn't just be viewed as the effect of power plays (always after the event): it is one of the preconditions for the emergence of political projects and governmental strategies. Third, as we have kept insisting, political projects are not always and not necessarily successful. They suffer implementation gaps, translation problems and encounter more or less compliant subjects, producing a fractured, uneven and potentially unruly social field – a field in which, of course, the elements of alternative imaginings of the social and its better ordering might be found.

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

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