Americanism as a global idolatry of market and its impact on universities

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ID12864671
AuthorsWalenty Ostasiewicz (Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume18
Issue24
Pages43-97
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueŚląski Przegląd Statystyczny (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1644-6739 • E-ISSN: 2449-9765
PublisherWroclaw University of Economics and Business (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15611/sps.2020.18.04
OpenAlexW3153060386
LanguageEN
References cited11

The main aim of this paper are critical reflections about the subservience of the academic elite (and ordinary scholars) to corporations, which is manifested by performing research and publishing papers, and fosters predatory politics of corporations.It is high time to wake up and open our eyes, and see that the so-called corporate social responsibility is in fact a social irresponsibility, that viatical insurance is a cynical mode for profiting from terminally ill persons, that customers are human beings who have dignity rather than monetary value and they cannot be packaged into portfolios.Everything relating to the stock exchange (interest rate, bonds, investments, instruments ) is a kind of pure speculation, and has nothing to do with the very production needed to ensure our livelihood, instead it serves to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.The primary aim of this paper is first of all to point to the existing extensive non-mainstream literature revealing the causes of this evil

Idolatry · Higher Education Governance and Development

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