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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 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 September 29, 2008
The question’s in the air at the moment. In the Australian blogosphere, John Quiggin thinks the financial markets crisis has killed it off, while Nicholas Gruen is (rightly in my view) more skeptical. [In response to commenters, Quiggin goes on [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Foreign Elections, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bush administration, christopher dodd, credit crisis, economic management, economic sociology, federal reserve, financial markets, henry paulson, market bailout, neoliberalism, political ideologies, political sociology, social democracy, socialism, sovereign wealth funds, sub prime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, Washington consensus |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 29, 2008
Club Troppo’s Don Arthur and I started a correspondence by email about some of the issues I raised in my post the other day about neo-liberalism and thinktanks, and the very rapid Blairisation of the Rudd/Gillard agenda (which has certainly [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, History, International, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, battle of ideas, Blair government, Carl Schmitt, classical liberalism, Coalition, education policy, education revolution, governmentality, historical sociology, jacques derrida, John Howard, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Margaret Thatcher, michel foucault, neoliberalism, New Labour, political ideologies, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, school education, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of ideologies, state formation, Tony Blair |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 28, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mark-davis.jpg" align=left At one stage, having read a lecture by Mark Davis in Overland, I thought his new book was going to be an update of Gangland. I’ve just started reading The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s [...]
Posted in Anzac Day, Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, Australian culture, Australian history, Australian nationalism, Australian studies, battle of ideas, Book review, Culture Wars, egalitarianism, fair go, Gangland, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Mark Davis, Melbourne University Press, neoliberalism, Nettie Palmer, political culture, political ideologies, politics & government, Rudd government, social democracy, sociology of culture, The Land of Plenty, Writings |
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