Durant wrote:
>
> This suggestion complies with the notion that
> capitalism was a dynamic, progressive, new development compared with
> the previous feudal rigidity. It played it's role, now it is but an
> obsticle in the way of the next stage...
>
> Eva
>
> > I am not an expert on the history of Early Modern Europe,
> > but one only need read Elizabeth Eisenstein's monumental
> > text: _The Printing Press as an Agent of Change_ (Cambridge Univ.),
> > which she says she wanted to title:
> >
> > The Master Printer as an Agent of Change
> >
> > , to understand that something has been lost between
> > the true giants of early capitalism: the great master
> > printers whose work laid the foundation for the modern
> > world, and "the bourgeois".
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Is there an alternative? Could *Business Schools* be
reorganized to teach entrepreneurship as an ethical
vocation? I know "the market" is the destroyer of all
human values, but managers need not *only* be passive
carriers of the laissez-faire retro-virus. They can *MANAGE*.
I believe such a notion is the basis and life-long
commitment of Peter Drucker's work, and at least some others.
Why not MBAs and CPAs and LLDs (oops: JDs) as consciences
of the marketplace (which latter, of course, is something larger
than just "the market", for it includes social discourse
*about* "the market" and the decisions of that collaboration
what to *do* about "the market").
\brad mccormick
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