There can be little doubt that neoliberalism has undermined, if not crippled, the notion of higher education as a democratic public sphere — a protective and courageous space where students can speak, write and act from a position of agency and informed judgment. These have no place in our corporate-indentured universities.” In the spirit of ruthless equity firms and asset-stripping …
When the Communist Party of India met in its second party congress in 1948, its 44-year-old secretary Bhalchandra Trimbak Ranadive came up with the famous line of “ Yeh aazadi jhoothi hai, desh ki janata bhookhi hai ”. The economic model after Independence BTR’s post-facto realisation of the global revolution having run its course before it could reach India would …
Editor’s Note: Witold Henisz is the vice dean and faculty director of the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School and the Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management. CNN — President Biden just issued the first veto of his presidency over Republican legislation that aims to limit retirement fund managers from incorporating environmental, social and governance factors into their financial analysis. …
While the world remains preoccupied with the geopolitical and humanitarian fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, its economic consequences are increasingly a matter for concern. Although the two countries at war account for barely 2.5 per cent of the world’s population, it emerges that the damage to production within their boundaries and the suspension of their trading relationship with …