The New Road to Serfdom
Umair Haque,
Eudaimonics,
Jul 29, 2011
I think Umair Haque may be becoming increasingly uncomfortable at Harvard Business Review. He is certainly increasingly out of place; far from being an apologists for corporate management culture, he is now standing directly opposed to it. At least, that's how I read statements like this: "our institutions, far from evolving and improving, at the time we need to update them most, are actually moving backwards. We're taking tiny steps--and sometimes giant leaps--backwards in time, deconstructing the basic building blocks of civilization." And his blog, outside the staid shelter of Harvard ivy, is walking even closer to the edge. I like it.
He writes, "We've forgotten what the economy's for. It's not a lowest-common-denominator tool for vulgar material plenitude, or a brain-dead mechanism for mere financial 'enrichment'--but, at its best, its highest, its most enlightened, its fundamentally worthiest, an economy must be an engine of human prosperity: a eudaimonic lever. A lever strong enough to raise human potential to unseen--and perhaps even undreamt of--heights." Quite right.
He writes, "We've forgotten what the economy's for. It's not a lowest-common-denominator tool for vulgar material plenitude, or a brain-dead mechanism for mere financial 'enrichment'--but, at its best, its highest, its most enlightened, its fundamentally worthiest, an economy must be an engine of human prosperity: a eudaimonic lever. A lever strong enough to raise human potential to unseen--and perhaps even undreamt of--heights." Quite right.
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