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By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2010
I’ve been wondering myself, recently, about the significance of Labor’s unbroken lead in the polls, which if memory serves, has persisted for over three years now. There’s little doubt that it’s Rudd’s election to lose, but, conversely, big Labor victories [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Politics, Polls, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Antony Green, brand loyalty, epistemology, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, Federal Elections, Labor, marketing, political behaviour, political parties, polling, Polls, possum, psephology, Rudd government, voting intention |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 8, 2009
I’ve had a stab, in a guest post over at Overland, at looking at how the tendencies we’ve always had to succumbing to magical thinking make climate change a very difficult challenge for politics – particularly when we need to [...]
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Bruno Latour, Climate change, climate change policy, cultural politics, Culture, epistemology, knowledge, Mark Bahnisch, nature, overland, political theory, Science, science studies, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 22, 2009
One of the rhetorical strategies employed by people wanting to take potshots at those who sought to blame neo-liberalism for some of the structural and attitudinal causes of the Global Financial Crisis has been to either deny that there is [...]
Posted in Blogging, Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Don Arthur, epistemology, GFC, ideology, John Quiggin, neo-liberalism, Politics, Sociology, Washington consensus |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2009
A lot of commentary in the US has focused on both the politics of Barack Obama’s stimulus package and on the TARP II bailout announced by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner last week. In developments which somewhat parallel the Australian debate [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged actor network theory, barack obama, cultural economics, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, epistemology, finance, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Friedmanites, global financial crisis, Karl Polanyi, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Malcolm Turnbull, Milton Friedman, Republicans, Senate, social cartography, Sociology, Tim Geithner |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
With George W. Bush having a little over a week in office left to go of what has been a very long eight years, it’s timely to turn to the question of the long term implications for the political strength [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Ethics, International, Markets, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, anti-science, Australian politics, Climate change, cprs, epistemology, George W. Bush, ideas, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, neoliberalism, political culture, right wing, Rudd government, Science, science studies, short term thinking, Sociology, white paper |
By Kim on January 11, 2009
One of the ironies of the Windschuttle kerfuffle is that Alan Sokal has a new book out. Perhaps all those Sokal analogies will help his sales. At any rate, blogger and UPenn cultural studies prof Michael Bérubé has some very [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Science, Sociology | Tagged Alan Sokal, Beyond the Hoax: Science, cultural studies, epistemology, hoax, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, Michael Bérubé, Philosophy and Culture, postmodernism, Quadrant, relativism, science studies, sharon gould, sociology of science |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2009
This post is a sequel to my previous one on economic faith and doctrines. When reflecting further about the ideological construction of “oppressive state intervention” and some of the comments made on the thread, I kept thinking about the fact [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged economic liberalism, Economics, epistemology, faith, global financial crisis, ideologies, Leo Panitch, liberalism, mixed economy, neoliberalism, political ideologies, political philosophy, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
Gary Sauer-Thompson has trained an observant eye on an editorial in the Fin: Yes, the road ahead looks difficult. But this is no time to abandon our faith in the capacity for enterprises and markets free of oppressive state intervention [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged economic liberalism, Economics, efficient markets hypothesis, Enlightenment, Enlightenment thought, epistemology, faith, global financial crisis, ideologies, John Quiggin, liberalism, mixed economy, neoliberalism, Religion, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science |
By dk.au on December 22, 2008
John Quiggin picks up on something that has been bugging me for a while. The idea of the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) as a ‘black swan event’ had some appeal to me. Philosophers have typically approached the problem of induction [...]
Posted in Markets, Philosophy | Tagged Black Swan, epistemology, Hume, induction, Nicholas Nassim Taleb |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 21, 2008
The Poll Bludger has the numbers on the latest Nielsen poll for Victoria. Labor leads on the 2PP 55-45. The Age trumpets this result as Victorian Labor “defying the national trend”. No doubt other papers are saying the same – [...]
Posted in Elections, Media, Polls, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections, Victoria | Tagged AC Nielsen, ALP, Anna Bligh, epistemology, john brumby, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Media, political narrative, political science, political sociology, Polls, psephology, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, social facts, sociology of knowledge, state labor, state politics, truth effect, Victorian Labor, Victorian politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 24, 2008
I kinda wish Kevin Rudd had never put his thoughts on Friedrich Von Hayek on paper, because had he not we’d have been saved some appallingly ill-informed “debates”. Although, if expert psephologist Janet Albrechtsen is right, Rudd’s articles on Howard’s [...]
Posted in Economics, History, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged alan wood, austrian economics, austrian economists, bank deposit guarantee, brutopia, collective action, economic policy, economic thought, Economics, epistemology, financial markets, free market, Friedrich Von Hayek, global financial crisis, historicism, ideology, Janet Albrechtsen, Kevin Rudd, Markets, Max Weber, methodensreit, neo-liberalism, philosophy of history, philosophy of social science, Rudd government, social action, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unintended consequences |
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