Why Finance Professors Should Be Teaching Nietzsche

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Salvatore Babones (巴博斯) is an American sociologist based in Sydney, Australia and the author of The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts. His academic research takes a long-term approach to interpreting the structure of the global economy, with a particular focus on China. He can be reached at: s@salvatorebabones.com.

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+ The Regional Structure of the Global Economy: Economic Hierarchies and Growth Strategies

+ Sovereignty in the Millennial World-System

+ From Capitalism to Empire: The Political Economy of the Third Millennium

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Why Finance Professors Should Be Teaching Nietzsche

Originally published at: https://www.afr.com/opinion/columnists/why-finance-professor ...

A dark cloud looms over Australia’s elite universities: the dark cloud of civilisation. Once welcomed for protecting the weak, healing the sick and ennobling the mind, civilisation is now feared as a harbinger of racism and colonial exploitation.

Western civilisation, that is. That’s the one to watch out for. All the others are just fine.

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The full text of this article is available online at:

https://www.afr.com/opinion/columnists/why-finance-professors-should-be-teaching-nietzsche-20181112-h17sde

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