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By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2011
Titanic battles between good and evil are fantasies, and the debt ceiling crisis illustrates what can happen when the fantastic power of ideology prevails.
Posted in Disasters, Economics, Featured, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, debt ceiling crisis, GOP, ideology, libertarianism, neo-liberalism, Paul Krugman, Rand Paul, Republicans, roundtable, Tea Party, US politics |
By Kim on May 27, 2010
The exit of Malcolm Fraser from the Liberal party has set a few tongues wagging: Andrew Bartlett: For the last few months, I’ve found it hard to shake the idea that the Liberal Party’s overriding approach to politics and policy [...]
Posted in Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, andrew bartlett, anti-politics, Charles Richardson, Federal Election 2010, GOP, ideology, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, libertarianism, Malcolm Fraser, Mark Lilla, populism, Republican party, Tony Abbott, USA mid term election 2010 |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 16, 2010
The biggest story in social media over the last couple of months has been the rapid decline in trust between Facebook and its users. Far from being a phenomenon restricted to techie activists, Facebook’s campaign to push an ever increasing [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Blogging, Creativity, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, Capitalism, commodification, commons, communicatins, danah boyd, data, dialectic, facebook, functionality, Henry Farrell, identity, internet, Jason calacanis, jeff jarvis, Kieran Healy, Labour, libertarianism, Mark Zuckerberg, monetisation, open source, partner sites, privacy, privatisation, publics, regulation, search engines, settings, social media, social networking, socialism, sociality, Sociology, trust, user generated content, web, Wired |
By Kim on March 31, 2010
Barnaby hit the news last night with another one of his bon mots: SABRA LANE: And on the eve of the Productivity Commission handing down a report on water recovery in the Murray-Darling basin, he had this to say about [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Politics, Water | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Catallaxy, economic stimulus, farmers, libertarianism, libertarians, murray-darling basin, pipeline, productivity commission, toilet paper, Water |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 12, 2008
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Howardia, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, The Web | Tagged ALP, Australia Institute, Authoritarianism, Catholic right, censorship, Clive Hamilton, Guy Rundle, Indigenous policy, Jason Soon, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kerry Miller, Labor, last superpower, liberalism, libertarianism, Lindsay Tanner, no clean feed, Noel Pearson, political philosophy, political science, political sociology, political theory, post-materialism, Religion, Rudd government, social democracy, social policy, Sociology, stephen conroy, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine |
By Kim on November 17, 2008
Almost a year after the former Dear Leader lost the election and his seat of Bennelong, the ABC is “heavily promoting” (something of an understatement) The Howard Years. Will we never be quit of this man? Personally, I intend to [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Howardia | Tagged ABC tv, Fox news, John Howard, libertarianism, subprime mortgages, The Howard Years |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 28, 2008
One of the intriguing things about wading through some of the business and economics shelves of some CBD bookshops in (fruitless) search of some of the titles John Quiggin reviewed in the Fin Review on Friday (not online of course) [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Europe, International, Markets, Sociology, USA | Tagged Ben bernanke, business cycle, Capitalism, economic policy, Economics, financial markets, free markets, global financial crisis, globalisation, henry paulson, ideology, Immanuel Wallerstein, John Quiggin, Karl Polanyi, libertarianism, neo-liberalism, New Left Review, political economy, Robert Wade, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, TARP |
By Kim on October 28, 2008
As noted on this post, John Quiggin’s been having a look at Alan Greenspan’s rather muted confession of error: After this crisis, the Keynes-Minsky view of financial markets as inherently destabilising looks a lot more appealing than the opposing view, [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, Ayn Rand, efficient markets hypothesis, financial markets, Fountainhead, global financial crisis, ideology, John Quiggin, libertarianism, neo-liberalism |
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