[Reader-list] Narcissism / Faith / Models

[Jeebesh]

dear Taha,

I would think  it more about a  consensus that accumulates around some  
visions and modalities in some institutions and schools of thought.  
This then can have consequences . It more a speculation. I thought the  
obsession around "models" that this report pointed out was interesting  
to reflect on. These models had percolated to all forms of social  
organization (e.g grant making bodies) and has had consequences on the  
ways life choices, effectivity etc was written and imagined.

warmly
jeebesh

On 20-Feb-09, at 8:20 AM, Taha Mehmood wrote:

> Dear Jeebesh
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> Going by the grain of the report which you have so kindly posted,  
> could one similarly argue did Oxbridge law faculty killed the  
> British rule in India? Because prima facie quite a few of Indian  
> national leaders went to these universities. Don't you feel such a  
> reading of any phenomena is perhaps facile?
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> Wasn't the assumption in the argument seems to suggest- students  
> retain some sensibility, some world view, some differentiating marks  
> of the knowledge exposed at places of learning, such as Department  
> of Business Management at Harvard.
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> Although I am not so sure about how much of an institutional trace  
> is retained by practitioners, so as to collectively effect a  
> recession in global economies?
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> Warm regards
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> Taha
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