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By Mark Bahnisch on May 17, 2010
The Economist speculated this week that the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government in the UK might come to be seen as “government by the southern rich for the southern rich”. Skepticlawyer has an interesting post at her eponymous blog, riffing off [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, History, International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged British election 2010, Cambridge, comprehensive education, David Cameron, Education, elitism, Eton Winchester, France, grammar schools, Great Britain, Harold Wilson, income inequality, Labour party, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Oxford, private schools, public schools, republicanism, revolution, social class, social mobility, Sociology, status, Tony Blair, uk |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 9, 2010
A lot has been said about Tony Abbott’s parental leave speech yesterday and today on this blog, on these two threads. As I suspected would occur, most of the qualifications and the actual non-policy aspect of the policy were not [...]
Posted in Economics, Feminism, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Media, Parenting, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged ALP, benefits, casual workers, Coalition, conservatism, employers, esping-andersen, federal minimum wage, Feminism, ideologly, ideology, income inequality, Labor, Liberal Party, parental leave, productivity commission, social policy, Tony Abbott, transfer payments, welfare policy, welfare state, Women, workers |
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 |
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 February 1, 2009
I’ve made the point before that real incomes in the United States have been more or less stagnant since 1974. It’s interesting to see John Quiggin dissect the reasons for this in the latest of his series of posts on [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, class politics, global financial crisis, GOP, ideology, income inequality, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Labor, middle class, nate silver, neo-liberalism, political economy, Republicans, Rudd government, social democracy, stimulus, The Monthly, trickle down theory, USA Election 2008 |
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