Are Managers the new barbarians destroying local and national societies
Abstract
First lines: Amused by his former students at the London Business School, Ian Angell wrote the The New Barbarian Manifesto in the early 2000s, identifying an emerging class of transnational mobile rational actors taking advantage of collective goods and services in the places where they lived. They did not invest resources or commit themselves to local places, going private and temporary for as many services as possible. Angell encouraged them to free-ride, make money, and organize their interests at a global scale, undermining existing social structures, States, taxation systems, and old national elites.