Business schools are institutions which a decade after the financial crash continue to act as
loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. In
this lively and incendiary call to action Martin Parker offers a simple message: shut down the
business school.Parker argues that business schools are 'cash cows' for the contemporary
university that have produced a generation of unreflective managers primarily interested in
their own personal rewards. If we see universities as institutions with responsibilities to the
societies they inhabit then we must challenge the common notion that 'the market' should be
the primary determinant of the education they provide. Shut Down the Business School makes a
compelling case for a radical alternative in the form of a 'School for Organising'. This
institution would develop and teach on different forms of organising instead of reproducing
the dominant corporate model enabling individuals to discover alternative responses to the
pressing issues of inequality and sustainability faced by all of us today.
