CONCLUDING COMMENT
And, continuing the retrospective review
- has the project been successful, met its
objectives? Surprisingly enough, it has
succeeded in a number of the objectives
listed in the Introduction. CSEAR, in
particular, has played a very positive and
surprisingly enabling role. Many of the
objectives, however, remain relatively
un-assailed. In particular, to read most
accounting and finance publications, to listen to most academic discussion, to sit
in on most lectures and seminars, you
could be forgiven for believing that
never has capitalism been so robust or
the prospects for the joy and fulfilment
of mankind so positive. You would find
yourself wondering just who perpetrates
all this angst about the power of MNCs,
the abdication of governments, the rates
of species extinction, the growth in ecological
footprints, the rate of child
deaths through drought and so on