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(In)efficiency: Should Efficiency be a Moral Value?
(In)efficiency: Should Efficiency be a Moral Value?
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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Jan 5, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Efficiency has moved from a technique for measuring machines to a widely held moral value. But at what cost?
Guests
Jennifer Alexander, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota and author of The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control
Tom Hodgkinson, founder and editor of The Idler
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Guests
Jennifer Alexander, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota and author of The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control
Tom Hodgkinson, founder and editor of The Idler
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Released:
Jan 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Joyce Appleby, “The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism” (Norton, 2010): Today everybody wants to be a capitalist, even Chinese communists. It would be easy to think, then, that capitalism is “natural,” that there is a little profit-seeker in each one of us just waiting to pop out. by New Books in Economic and Business History