Everything Has a Price: Or Businessmen Know Best

Bryan Gould

Chapter Chapter 7 in Myths, Politicians and Money, 2013, pp 87-102 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The dominance of neo-liberal thinking and the economic power of business leaders has had a profound, even if at times unacknowledged, impact on western society. Many of the values that were once thought to be its defining characteristics — conservative values, such as loyalty, honesty, duty and patriotism, as well as more progressive values such as tolerance, compassion, collective enterprise, social responsibility and generosity — have been increasingly abandoned in favour of a more aggressive sense that the only value by which actions and attitudes are to be judged is the pursuit of individual self-interest. It is increasingly accepted that, whatever claims might be made for what are now seen as the old-fashioned values, they can and should be trumped by the imperative of pursuing individual advancement and self-interest.

Keywords: Business Leader; Public Service Broadcasting; Private Prison; Private Finance Initiative; National Health Service Organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137358639_8

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