Business, Management and Economics

Following on from Martin Parker's article on university strikes yesterday, Bob Smale looks at the strikes more broadly, the background to industrial unrest and how the government's current economic difficulties are to a significant extent of their own making.…Read more

Martin Parker looks at the expansion of UK higher education and suggests that while access to education has improved, it is now based on a market that treats students as bags of cash and academics as the labour necessary to extract the value from the students.…Read more

Dave Beer looks at the latest twists in the Twitter soap opera and considers how tech platforms influence and envision an imagined future. …Read more

Gordon Pearson looks at the challenges facing Rishi Sunak and suggests that the emphasis his cabinet places on measuring growth by GDP neglects the moral and environmental realities in society and could lead to various humanitarian failures.…Read more

Recent government policies have plunged the UK’s economy into crisis. Paul Stevens, our Publisher for Business, Management and Economics, has curated this reading list that focuses on the dangers of concentrating on economic growth while ignoring the need for wider social change. …Read more

Louise Ashley argues that diversity initiatives that promise to address inequalities in the workforce have no impact on the highest earners in London, such as lawyers and bankers.…Read more

In response to a recent story on a white nationalist group, Karen Lee Ashcraft, author of 'Wronged and Dangerous', considers how articles on far-right extremism often ignore other contributing factors, such as gender.…Read more

Cybernetics provides lot of the tools needed to help individual coops bring about effective democratic and non-hierarchical regulation. It shows us how we can collectively manage change in the face of adversity and develop the solutions we need. Thomas Swann looks at the history of the coop movement and ask whether cybernetic cooperatives could be the future of work.…Read more

Andreas Nölke, author of 'Post-Corona Capitalism: The Alternatives Ahead', reminds us that this is a perfect time to take stock of the societal, economic and political effects of COVID-19 so that we don’t waste an important window of opportunity for wide-ranging social reform. …Read more

Katherine Chen on using our scyborgian capacity to rethink colonial practices in organisations so that they serve traditionally less advantaged stakeholders. …Read more