Is the collapse of capitalism upon us? Are we facing a moral armageddon in the marketplace? Is every scandal-driven headline another sign of impending apocalypse in the world of business? You could be forgiven for thinking so, if you read enough editorials.
Just look at the opinion pieces carried by major news outlets over the last month. Eduardo Porter editorialized in the NY Times about . The Atlantic carried a piece called The Libor Scandal and Capitalisms Moral Decay, by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Rohde. Even business school professors are down with the effort to convince you that the end is nigh: Bloomberg just recently featured a piece by Prof.
A disabled woman who spent a year living in temporary accommodation because she couldn’t find an accessible home, has joined a campaign calling on estate agents to meet the needs of their disabled customers. Hannah Lou Blackall has joined the Muscular Dystrophy Trailblazers campaigners who campaign for the rights of young disabled people, to call on estate agents and landlords to improve services available to disabled people. Miss Blackall has contributed to the campaign’s Locked Out report which was published last week and launched by the All Parliamentary Committee for Young Disabled People. The report was compiled from the experiences of 200 disabled 18 to 30 year-olds as well as the views of young disabled people who took part in 12 focus groups on their housing experiences. Th