Wonderful to hear James Marriott, on #R4Today, defend the humanities on human, not just economic principles.
As he says, an understanding of the past or a joy in music is of value in itself.
It's not just a means to teach employable skills or secure a good starting salary.
As he says, an understanding of the past or a joy in music is of value in itself.
It's not just a means to teach employable skills or secure a good starting salary.
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Everything else is just Science.
I've had a go at that case here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1180745262425358336.html
How did we end up normalising the limited company searching for profit as the vehicle for expanding well-being between, say the 1880s and the 1980s?
How do we recover the idea that economy requires mutuality?
Did Keynes ever make a more important intervention in the economy than building the Arts Theatre in Cambridge?
So that balance sheets have become the only utilitarian measure.
On the other hand, students today pay a fortune for the privilege - I graduated 20 years ago and it was still cheap.
They have to have opportunities for the cost…