Perspective
Mar. 5, 2016
Professions of the world, unite
Attorney Richard Wirick reviews "The Future of Professions," by father-son duo Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
In the darkness of the Great Depression, in 1933, two British sociologists lit what they thought were twin candles in Babylon. Paul Wilson and Alex Carr-Saunders saw an escape from economic instability and confusion in the development of a professional class. These would be composed of highly trained cadres in disciplines forming "centers of resistence to crude forces which threaten steady and peaceful economic evolution." The sc...
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