A malediction upon management

Abstract

This paper starts out from an account of deep changes in the formation of what has been called turbo-capitalism and attaches these to the emergence of wholesale auditing of all state institutions. It criticizes these hastily contrived procedures for irrelevance, narrowly financial criteria and a view of accountability indistinguishable from the politics of blame. It concludes by tracing the incommensurability of these methods with more traditional and canonical values in the polity now at risk under the impress of consumer totalitarianism.