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Kevin Rudd, Gordon Brown, Adam Smith and free markets

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 | 95 Responses

Feminism good for families

By Kim on August 27, 2008

It’s been 45 years since Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique. Via The Global Sociology Blog, I’ve just read this op/ed by historian Stephanie Coontz – author of Marriage, A History – writing in the Guardian to mark the anniversary. [...]

Posted in Activism, Developing world, Economics, Europe, Feminism, History, Industrial Relations, Middle East, Parenting, Poverty, Religion, Sexuality, Sociology, USA, Women | Tagged anti-feminism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Betty Friedan, Culture Wars, defence of marriage, equal employment opportunity, families, family values, Feminism, feminism and religion, feminist movement, gender & equality, history of marriage, human capital theory, Islam, neoliberalism, same sex marriage, sex discrimination, Sociology, sociology of the family, Stephanie Coontz, The Feminine Mystique | 123 Responses

The Enlightenment is in danger! (from its false friends)

By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2008

In the spheres and circles in which Planet Janet moves, it’s “defend the Enlightenment” week. At first, I thought this was just the latest volley in the denialist wars, but now that we know that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in [...]

Posted in Education, Ethics, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Ayaan Hirsi Ali, cultural studies, Culture Wars, education wars, ethical relativism, gavin kitching, higher education, humanism, jacques derrida, john frow, laughing at the disabled, ludwig wittgenstein, michael noonan, michel foucault, paralysed by postmodernism, political science, postmodernism, scholarly standards, The Enlightenment, The West | 35 Responses

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