660. The Intersection of Critical Theory and Business Education with Peter Fleming

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc · Jun 16, 2026 · 50m

Peter Fleming is a professor of management at the University of Technology Sydney, and also the author of several books. His recent works are Dark Academia: How Universities Die, Sugar Daddy Capitalism: The Dark Side of the New Economy, and The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation. Greg and Peter discuss doing critical theory inside business schools and how neoliberalism and managerialism have reshaped universities. They also discuss the professionalization of higher education toward “employability,” driven by scarce public funding and human capital…