I'm Jeff Trexler, Wilson Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Pace University, where I study law and personal identity. It's good to be here at JustMeans. Uncivil Society is a blog I maintain about values, design and corporate identity, with a particular focus on social enterprise. The Blingdom of God is where I write about spirituality and material culture....
Bubble Trouble
As I explain in my writing on the social enterprise bubble, the rhetoric of the social enterprise movement reflects a time that when I wrote was the present but is now long past. Nonetheless, we continue to speak that language as if nothing has changed, even as our values shift in ways that flip our business rhetoric into its very opposite.
An article in tomorrow's New York Times Magazine highlights our entrepreneurial culture is changing. The Self-Employed Depression describes how entrepreneurship is moving from an aspirational ideal of personal fulfillment to a cut-rate fallback for the unemployed.
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