Unnecessary Suffering: Managing Market Utopia

摘要: They have a dream -- of world where everything and everybody can be bought sold, run efficiently by managers, "freedom" means the free market. Maurice Glasman argues that this is an unrealizable utopia - or nightmare if put into practice. He takes tired old cliches management-speak New Right Left alike turns them on their heads: managers are not efficient, they barriers to work production. "Liberal democracy" which now market strong state should turned upside down, with democracy at level economy liberalism state. Drawing Karl Polanyi, there no need surrender solidarity human rights march There another tradition, represented labour movement Catholic Church in postwar West Germany, Solidarity Poland before 1989, when statist communitarianism took over. Unnecessary Suffering examines tradition issues call beings environment cannot, not, will treated like commodities. For all workers drowning sea dogma management.memos, Unnecesary necessary reading.