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In times of economic austerity the Arts and Humanities are usually the first ones to come under the axe. There seems to be a commonsensical understanding among those deciding where taxpayers money should go that these are areas that do not bring immediate practical benefits to society and should, therefore, have their budgets reduced in order to invest public money in productive sectors, defense and, in terms of education, in the hard sciences. Such an approach could be considered misguided to say the least. As Gopal 2010 points out in a recent article in The Guardian, The humanities will neither bring an end to wars nor prevent chronic hunger, even if literature, history and art have much to teach us about why these miseries persist. The humanities will not save the world has business studies but neither are they a solitary activity of no social consequence. Education, culture and society are like the oceans, an ecosystem. Plundering and draining one area degrades the larger environment.