Posted on 11/03/2023 3:37:37 AM PDT by karpov
Business schools may be the last campus holdouts from governmental-ideological intrusion. Yet even they are beginning to surrender to current progressive obsessions with race, climate, and wealth. This capitulation was shown most recently by a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., by some of the country’s leading business-school deans. There, B-school leaders and Biden administration representatives discussed forms of cooperation that may result in the modification of curricula. While the deans’ general obsequiousness before executive-branch officials is not a new phenomenon, this degree of systematic governmental influence in business classrooms certainly is.
Alone among the “obsessions” listed above, wealth is the province of business schools. Nevertheless, as any honest accounting, microeconomics, finance, or business-strategy professor will tell you, wealth is created by the private sector. The public sector, if smartly managed, can facilitate many aspects of wealth creation—by infrastructure investment, for example, or via intelligent regulation—but that is generally the limit of what public-sector interference can achieve.
Yet, as economist Thomas Sowell constantly reminds us, wealth has to be created somewhere, somehow, by someone. That is what the American private sector, supported by private-property law, has been extraordinarily effective at doing. Government doesn’t want to see an end of wealth, of course, but it is increasingly interested in who enjoys the spoils.
Business schools are a natural place to develop the process of ideological reorientation where the politics of wealth are concerned. Because universities can easily be coerced through money or via the accreditation cartel, progressive governments can strong-arm them into teaching that socialism is merely another expression of business opportunity. This is an important, emerging story that needs to be told.
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The department of education must go.! And NPR as well...
Detroit used to be a highly prosperous city.
Business schools can easily be replaced.
From what I have seen, the business schools are already producing poor leaders with no common sense.
A guy I know with a college education in a field unrelated to his current work lists the School of Hard Knox on his LinkedIn professional profile.
BTTT
That’s one reason why all federal government funding of universities needs to end.
There’s too much money involved to avoid bending the knee.
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