http://timbuktu.dk/archives/1607 blog by thomas elsted Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:04:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://timbuktu.dk/archives/1607/comment-page-1#comment-4942 Thomas Elsted Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:04:09 +0000 http://timbuktu.dk/?p=1607#comment-4942 Brian Holmes (brianholmes.wordpress.com): "What never happened in the last ten years of intensifying debate over the global expansion of neoliberalism is the slightest recognition from the corporate class that something might be wrong. It’s as though what’s called the “pang of conscience” – that ghostly moment when the stakes of someone else’s life or death impinge on your sensibility – had vanished from the minds of those who manage the world’s industrial development. [...] Maybe it proves [...] that decades of neoliberal greed have eliminated even the slightest risk of conscience among business executives? Could there be a zombie at the wheel in the age of corporate governance? And if so, where is the juggernaut of contemporary capitalism really headed?" Brian Holmes (brianholmes.wordpress.com):
“What never happened in the last ten years of intensifying debate over the global expansion of neoliberalism is the slightest recognition from the corporate class that something might be wrong. It’s as though what’s called the “pang of conscience” – that ghostly moment when the stakes of someone else’s life or death impinge on your sensibility – had vanished from the minds of those who manage the world’s industrial development.
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Maybe it proves [...] that decades of neoliberal greed have eliminated even the slightest risk of conscience among business executives? Could there be a zombie at the wheel in the age of corporate governance? And if so, where is the juggernaut of contemporary capitalism really headed?”

]]> http://timbuktu.dk/archives/1607/comment-page-1#comment-4920 Mark H Beanland Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:37:31 +0000 http://timbuktu.dk/?p=1607#comment-4920 Great blog post Thomas - I like the questions raised. I'll do my share to spread the word and look forward to seeing the a red thread develop over the coming months. Great blog post Thomas – I like the questions raised. I’ll do my share to spread the word and look forward to seeing the a red thread develop over the coming months.

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