By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2010
Two of the most unedifying aspects of the aftermath of the election result, from the time when it became apparent that we would have a hung parliament, have been the pressure for a quick resolution and the endless rehashing of [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged 7 30 Report, Andrew Robb, Bill Shorten, Bob Katter, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Insiders, Karl Bitar, liberals, Markets, Media, Rob Oakeshott, tony windsor |
By Kim on April 22, 2010
The British media and conservative establishment is throwing the kitchen sink at the Liberal Democrats, in an attempt to contain their surge in support [previous discussion on LP here]. The Daily Mail has gone feral, the Murdoch tabloids have gone [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Markets, Polls | Tagged capital, Conservative Party, debates, democracy, election debates, hung parliament, IMF, Kenneth Clarke, Labour, leaders debates, Liberal Democrats, Markets, Nick Clegg, Polls, Tories, UK election 2010 |
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 January 26, 2010
A number of US financial blogs are reporting that Ben Bernanke faces a chance of failure to be confirmed by the American Senate for a second term in office. James Bianco at The Big Picture has all the details, and [...]
Posted in International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, barack obama, Ben bernanke, central banks, Fed, federal reserve, global finance, global financial crisis, gordon brown, health care, ideology, James Bianco, Markets, Massachussetts, Naked Capitalism, neo-liberalism, Politics, Scott Brown, Senate, The Big Picture, us economy, US politics, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2010
As Derek Barry observes in a comprehensive post, the Productivity Commission has weakened its recommendations on corporate governance and remuneration. Business groups were reportedly complaining about ‘risk’ and ‘uncertainty’. (Intriguingly, those appear to be two of the most common litanies [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, bonuses, business lobby, CFMEU, executive pay, extreme capitalism, GFC, global financial crisis, gordon brown, john sutton, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour, Markets, productivity commission, Rudd government, toxic debt, two strikes |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 15, 2009
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott has created quite the stir with his A. N. Smith Memorial Lecture in Melbourne last night. Scott took a pot shot at Rupert Murdoch, characterising him as a “frantic emperor”. Decline and fall of old [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Markets, Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged abc, content, future of journalism, future of media, margaret simons, mark scott, Markets, Media, new media, News Limited, online media, public broadcasting, Rupert Murdoch, social media, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2009
For the first time ever, the Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to a woman, Elinor Ostrom (jointly with Oliver E. Williamson). John Quiggin, writing in Crikey today [where incidentally, he throws a sop to the pedants by pointing [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets | Tagged commons, economic policy, economic theory, Economics, Economics Nobel, Elinor Ostrom, empiricism, John Quiggin, Markets, mixed economy, nobel prize, Oliver Williamson |
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 September 29, 2009
As a conclusion to his series provoked by The Australian‘s “What’s Left” op/ed fest, Guy Rundle has proposed a positive vision of the future from the left. [For my previous LP posts on this theme, see here.] I’ll post the [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, democracy, end of history, futures, global financial crisis, globalisation, Guy Rundle, ideology, justice, left, Markets, Marxism, neo-liberalism, phenomenology, political culture, political imaginary, political philosophy, political theory, post-capitalism, sensibility, social democracy, social imaginary, socialism, Sociology, The Australian, Third Way, utopia, value, values, What's Left, Zizek |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 10, 2009
If anything ends up completely discrediting the worship of markets, it will probably turn out to be the vacuous and endlessly deferred nature of quasi-market “solutions” to climate change, which have little support even among those who are ideologically predisposed [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Environment, Markets | Tagged Climate change, emissions trading, Energy, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Markets, neo-liberalism, quasi-markets |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 14, 2009
[Via Rob Corr] John Quiggin, with his customary acuity and clarity of thought, has outlined a social democratic agenda post the Global Financial Crisis in a paper [pdf] for the Whitlam Institute. A social democratic response to the crisis must [...]
Posted in Disasters, Economics, International, Markets, Policy, Sociology, USA | Tagged AIG, barack obama, credit markets, credit swap defaults, derivatives, economic policy, equity markets, G20, GFC, global financial crisis, ideology, John Quiggin, Larry Summers, Markets, Michael Perelman, neo-liberalism, Obama administration, Policy, practices, regulation, risk, social democracy, Tim Geithner, US government, Wall Street, Whitlam Institute |
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