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By Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2009
The Australian is running a series on defining the left (!), kicking off with a contribution today by Tim Soutphommasane. Soutphommasane is apparently the go to person at the moment for all things social democratic, having written a book arguing [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged agency, ALP, Amartya Sen, canon, capabilities, Culture Wars, Demos, egalitarianism, electoral politics, History, ideology, internationalism, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labourism, left, Lenin, mateship, narrative, Nationalism, New Labour, patriotism, Paul Kelly, political culture, political identity, political philosophy, political theory, Politics, Rudd government, social democracy, social inclusion, social justice, socialism without doctrines, Sociology, The Australian, Tim Soutphommasane, values, What's Left |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 29, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/death_and_taxes.jpg" The latest issue of the Centre for Policy Development‘s online mag, Insight, is out, and ‘Taxation for Our Times’ focuses on the Henry Review. I make no claims to any expertise in the technical aspects of taxation policy, [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Amartya Sen, Australia, capacities, Centre for Policy Development, collectivism, CPD, cultural studies, Economics, Henry review, History, ideology, insight, Ken Henry, liberalism, political culture, Politics, Rudd government, Sociology, statism, tax, taxation policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 1, 2009
As Kevin Rudd joined Gordon Brown in decrying “the false god” of “unfettered free markets” in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, Janet Albrechtsen got her apoplexy in early, lamenting the fact that Kevin Rudd doesn’t read Hayek (apparently Ayaan Hirsi Ali [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Europe, History, International, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Amartya Sen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Capitalism, G20, GFC, Giovanni Arrighi, global financial crisis, gordon brown, Hayek, Janet Albrechtsen, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Keynes, London, Markets, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, neo-liberalism, political economy, public intellectual, public interest, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Institute |
By Kim on March 31, 2009
As I’ve been implying, coverage of the preliminaries of the G20 summit has been distorted through the lens of domestic politics – of the most trivial kind. ABC tv news, tonight, for instance, was obsessed by whether Kevin Rudd’s decision [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Europe, International, Markets, Media, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged abc, Amartya Sen, America, Angela Merkel, barack obama, China, David Miliband, Economics, G20, GFC, global financial crisis, gordon brown, ideology, income inequality, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, London, news, social market, Sociology, sub prime mortgage, summit |
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