Dr David AtkinsoninAn Inspector CallsBeauty: A sword in the invisible hand made visibleThe question of what form a transition from neoliberal capitalism might take requires new approaches to understand not only the necessary…4 min read·Nov 21, 2020--1--1
Dr David AtkinsoninAn Inspector CallsFreedomA FREE MAN CAN HAVE NO RIGHTS, BUT FOR HIS OWN FREEDOM1 min read·Nov 14, 2020----
Dr David AtkinsoninAn Inspector CallsA question of resilience?Is ‘Resilience’ the wrong word?3 min read·Oct 20, 2020----
Dr David AtkinsoninAn Inspector CallsOpinion, satire and allegory in a VUCA worldThe Crash of 2008 and the Covid-19 pandemic reinforce a widely held perception that capitalism is in crisis, and that the future is…5 min read·Oct 10, 2020----
Dr David AtkinsoninAn Inspector CallsReflecting on news from the future of UK employmentThe idea of considering fictionalized, counterfactual future news headlines has a purpose — that is to focus the context of thinking about…4 min read·Oct 9, 2020----
Dr David AtkinsoninAn Inspector CallsThe rhythm of a VUCA worldThe rhythm of our neoliberal capitalist world, the rhythm of neoliberal capitalist business, is the rhythm of creative destruction — the…3 min read·Oct 6, 2020----
Dr David AtkinsoninAn Inspector CallsTo be a (worker) beeThe distinction between the ‘us’ that may be the ‘recruits’ to contemporary entrepreneurial employment and the heroic ‘others’ as…4 min read·Oct 4, 2020----
Dr David AtkinsoninAn Inspector CallsIn the land of Oz: The business school as the Tin Woodman‘I shall take the heart,’ [said] the Tin Woodman; ‘for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.’4 min read·Oct 2, 2020----
Dr David AtkinsoninAn Inspector Calls‘I’: Citizen entrepreneur…Transitions in the power-politic of our contemporary ‘state’ of democratic capitalism require mechanisms of change outside, below and…4 min read·Oct 1, 2020----