Americanism as a global idolatry of market and its impact on universities

• Authors: Ostasiewicz Walenty

Title variants

PL

Amerykanizm jako globalne bałwochwalstwo i jego wpływ na uniwersytety

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

The main aim of this paper are critical reflections about the subservience of the academic elite (and ordinary scholars) to corporations, which is manifested by performing research and publishing papers, and fosters predatory politics of corporations. It is high time to wake up and open our eyes, and see that the so-called corporate social responsibility is in fact a social irresponsibility, that viatical insurance is a cynical mode for profiting from terminally ill persons, that customers are human beings who have dignity rather than monetary value and they cannot be packaged into portfolios. Everything relating to the stock exchange (interest rate, bonds, investments, instruments ) is a kind of pure speculation, and has nothing to do with the very production needed to ensure our livelihood, instead it serves to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. The primary aim of this paper is first of all to point to the existing extensive non-mainstream literature revealing the causes of this evil.

PL

W artykule dokonano przede wszystkim krytyki podporządkowywania uniwersytetów ideologii wolnorynkowej i traktowania ich jako przedsiębiorstw produkujących nie tylko tak zwaną siłę roboczą, ale i wiedzę na podstawie biznesplanów wzorowanych na praktykach przedsiębiorstw produkcyjnych. Podporządkowywane takie dokonywane jest przez władze każdego szczebla i – niestety, – wspierane przez kadrę akademicką poprzez publikacje idealizujące idolizację niby-wolnego rynku. Poza tym skrytykowano dość powszechną praktykę samopoddaństwa kadry akademickiej hegemonowi korporacyjnemu polegającą na prowadzeniu badań wspomagających i promujących działalność korporacji, których głównym celem jest dążenie do zysku, tak zwana zaś odpowiedzialność społeczna jest tylko zasłoną. Niezależnie od tego skrytykowana została nieszkodliwa społecznie praktyka „wciskania kitu”. Oprócz krytyki przedstawione są też argumenty za przyłączeniem się do nurtów nowego myślenia o świecie i o gospodarowaniu. Tak jak ongiś rozwinęło się Oświecenie, które w centrum uwagi umieściło rozum, a zostało przyćmione obecnym oczarowaniem rynkiem, tak teraz nastaje czas na odczarowanie w postaci ożywienia stawiającego w centrum uwagi życie. W związku z tym w załączniku zamieszczona jest imitacja wskazówek, jakie Benjamin Franklin dał młodemu handlowcowi, w której słynne ‘czas to pieniądz’ zamienione jest na ‘czas to życie’ i poparte zostało odpowiednimi wskazówkami na wzór wskazówek Franklina.

Keywords

EN

neoliberalism; business aberration; linguistic imperialism; fate of universities; dismal science

PL

neoliberalizm; aberacje biznesu; imperializm linguistyczny; los uniwersytetów; smętna nauka

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 18 (24)
• Pages: 43-98

Contributors

author

Ostasiewicz Walenty

• Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland

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