Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to subject the short lived “Policy Analysis Market” (PAM) – “a Pentagon betting market on terror attacks” – and media and academic reactions to it, to some critical analysis. Design/methodology/approach – The paper engages sustained...

Purpose – That which is exchanged in financialised trading extends beyond the moment, being elongated in the rights, responsibilities and liabilities it confers and so liable in nature as to throw into question the very attribute of thingness traditionally associated with exchange. The purpose...

<italic>All four authors are members of the Leicester school of critical management and have previously written together on academic publishing. David Harvie lectures in finance and is interested in ethical issues related to this and other matters. He is a member of The Free Association writing...</italic>

Managers are currently exhorted by 'gurus' to adopt new management thinking in the face of obvious rapid change and uncertainty. In essence, the new thinking advocates shifting from 'command-and-control' to 'facilitate-and-empower' forms of organization and work. In a survey of senior managers...