“Reassurance Labour” and post-Blair social democracy
Globally, the centre-left is enduring a period of public weariness and dissatisfaction. In Australia, a relatively unpopular government battles on against a red-blooded Opposition Leader, with the spectre of a leadership context lingering unerringly in the background. Between Kevin and [...]
David Cameron’s socialism by some other name
Whither Keynes? For the past six to twelve months, the big philosophical imponderable doing the rounds in British political life has been the extent to which the government should intervene in the market in order to stimulate the national economy. [...]
Energy White Paper – an overconfident document
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Martin Ferguson personally drafted parts of the Federal Government’s new energy White Paper. It reads with the same subtext he manages to pack into just about every sentence – that you greenies have [...]
Quick link: OECD on inequality in Australia
The OECD has released a new report on inequality, encompassing Australia. Matt Cowgill summarises the findings at We Are All Dead: From the mid-1980s to the late-2000s, the incomes of the top decile of Australian households grew by an average [...]
Occupy London: radical or conservative?
For almost two months now, the Occupy London camp has remained firmly entrenched outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, having been banned from the private grounds of Paternoster Square, where the London Stock Exchange is located. After winning its philosophical “huddled masses” [...]
Ten things evil capitalists “really think”: a response
Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MEP for the south of England and regular columnist for the UK’s Daily Telegraph, has written a column in which he purports to tell the Occupy protestors “ten things that evil capitalists really think”. It’s been [...]
The politics of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation
How can the government minimize the political and financial risks of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation?
Quicklink: Start-ups and Safety Nets
How many Americans are locked into jobs they hate by the fear of losing health benefits? Safety devices cost money, but they pay off.
‘Rational’ econocrats v. “hand waving Mediterraneans”
There was an extraordinary article (unfortunately not online) in the weekend Financial Review discussing the latest EU developments – the departure of George Papandreou and Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Ministers of Greece and Italy and their replacement by econocrats acceptable [...]
Democracy v. EU Plutocracy: Links post
A number of important posts worth noting about the decision of Greek Prime Minister Georges Papandreou to submit the EU’s latest “rescue”/austerity package to a referendum: Yves Smith: …no one anticipated that a long suffering debtor would revolt, which is [...]
Why Adam Bandt is (largely) wrong about the Qantas dispute
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around the traps about Adam Bandt’s statement yesterday about what the government should have done, or left undone, with regard to the Qantas dispute. Some of Bandt’s post seems to echo criticism from [...]
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