Economic Controversies
Confronting Managerialism
How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance
Robert R. Locke and J.-C. Spender
8 September 2011
Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the crippling influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. In doing so, Locke and Spender show how business managers who were once well-regarded as custodians of the economic...
The Global Minotaur
America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
Yanis Varoufakis
18 August 2011
In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back...
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Zed Blog
- The Guardian - Now it is Ireland's turn to reject the austerity fantasy: France and Greece have shown it is possible to resist this ideology. This month the Irish too may vote to stop 'behaving'.
- Th Guardian: Charles Taylor asks not to be jailed in UK
- Hamid Dabashi: Elia Suleiman's cinema as the premonition of the Arab revolutions - Exploring the emotive universe from which the Arab Spring finally blossomed.
- Sustainable Business Forum: The Third Industrial Revolution
- Pacific Free Press - Rejecting Odious Debt: Africa






