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By tigtog on November 15, 2011
How many Americans are locked into jobs they hate by the fear of losing health benefits? Safety devices cost money, but they pay off.
Posted in Economics, International, Sociology | Tagged free markets, roundtable, safety net, social contract |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2010
… and no, I won’t be posting a photo of Tony Abbott in any form of swimwear to answer that question. But it’s interesting to observe the blue thread that runs through all of Abbott’s pronouncements – a mindset that [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Economics, Elections, Howardia, Markets, Philosophy, Policy, Politics | Tagged Authoritarianism, classic liberalism, climate change policy, Coalition, conservatism, conservatives, dirgisme, economic policy, Economics, Federal Election 2010, free markets, Howardism, ideology, Liberal Party, libertarians, Markets, Nationals, neo-liberalism, paternalism, the state, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2009
Steven Shaviro, who blogs at The Pinocchio Theory, has written an excellent piece on the Global Financial Crisis. Shaviro captures how capitalism is lived – and how it produces a demeanour of fatalism. He emphasises the way in which the [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture, International, Life, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, discipline., Economics, Enlightenment, free markets, global financial crisis, governance, governmentality, Hayek, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Markets, Marxism, neo-liberalism, Pinocchio Theory, political economy, political ideologies, rationality, Ronald Reagan, Sociology, Steven Shapiro |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 2, 2009
There’s been a lot of discussion in the wake of the GFC of imposing some sort of cap or limitation on executive and board remuneration. The basic idea – which was accepted by the G8 – goes to a real [...]
Posted in Economics, Government, Markets, Policy | Tagged board remuneration, executive salaries, free markets, g8, GFC, high incomes, incentives, Kevin Rudd, managerialism, neo-liberalism, progressive income tax, public companies, social democracy, super tax |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 18, 2009
Props to Paul Burns for cooking up the latest apt nickname for Peter Costello – it says it all, really. If the Liberal Party thought they’d recovered from the political morass they sunk themselves into with the stimulus package naysaying, [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Christopher Pyne, Essential Research poll, factions, free markets, howard government, ideology, Joe Hockey, leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, moderates, Peter Costello, political communication, public opinion, reshuffle, Rudd government, stimulus package |
By Kim on February 10, 2009
From the Quadrant blog: The world’s economies are not suffering from a lack of demand, and the right policy response is not a demand stimulus. Increased public sector spending will only add to the market confusions that already exist… There’s [...]
Posted in Economics | Tagged austrian economics, economic policy, Economics, free markets, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, neo-liberalism, New Deal, Quadrant, Steven Kates, stimulus package |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 6, 2009
I was having a chat with a friend over dinner last night, and we were talking about transformational politics. The missing ingredient in Kevin Rudd’s discussion of social democracy appears to be any sense that there’s some goal ahead, other [...]
Posted in Activism, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, alternative economic strategy, Christian socialism, free markets, global financial crisis, globalisation, human capital, ideology, income inequality, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Labor, neo-liberalism, political economy, Politics, Red Pepper, Rudd government, social democracy, social inequality, stimulus, Stuart Holland, Third Way, Tony Benn, transformational politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 4, 2009
The current line from the defenders of the free market faith is that unfortunate failures of regulation were the cause of the Global Financial Crisis, and thus of the growing travails afflicting us in the real economy. Thus neo-liberalism, the [...]
Posted in Economics, International, USA | Tagged ALP, free markets, global financial crisis, ideology, income inequality, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Labor, neo-liberalism, New Left Review, Peter Costello, Peter Cowan, political economy, Politics, Rudd government, social democracy, stimulus, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
Following on from one of the conclusions that can be drawn from the thread on Bernard Keane’s critique of the Rudd government’s involvement with bankers – that there’s a growing perception that the long term implications of “emergency” economic decisions [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Industrial Relations, Markets, Politics, Poverty | Tagged ALP, AMWU, car manufacturing, employment, free markets, industry assistance, industry policy, Labor, labour market, labour market programs, neoliberalism, Rudd government, skills, Tenneco, unemployment, unions, vehicle parts |
By Guest Poster on November 19, 2008
MB writes: The Search Foundation, working with Professor Frank Stilwell of Sydney University, has prepared a short statement on the global financial crisis and possible responses. The idea behind the statement is to stimulate thought about a progressive agenda among [...]
Posted in Activism, Economics, International, Markets, Sociology | Tagged ALP, deregulation, economic policy, frank stilwell, free markets, global financial crisis, neo-liberalism, political economy, Rudd government, search foundation, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 16, 2008
The G20 Summit has come and gone, and if today’s coverage in the Australian press is any indication, the most important of the tea leaves to be read is whether George W. Bush snubbed Kevin Rudd over the “Kirribilli leak”. [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged Adolf Berle, australian media, barack obama, Bretton Woods, Capitalism, derivatives, FDR, financial markets, financialisation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free markets, G20, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, Great Depression, international finance, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, New Deal, political economy, regulation, securitisation, Sociology, summit |
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