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By Mark Bahnisch on February 24, 2010
The other day, I mentioned Clive Hamilton’s series of posts on climate change denialism at The Drum. In today’s edition, Hamilton comments: Indeed, those who study the climate itself rather than the bogus debate in the newspapers and the blogosphere [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Disasters, Ethics, Language, Media, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Bayesian probability, cartesian rationality, Climate change, climate change denialists, Clive Hamilton, Descartes, discourse, Enlightenment, EU, European Union, IPCC, IPCC 4th Report, Max Weber, Media, methodology, regimes of truth, Science, science as a vocation, science communication, science studies, scientific method, skepticism, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, truth, truth statements |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 1, 2009
As Kevin Rudd joined Gordon Brown in decrying “the false god” of “unfettered free markets” in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, Janet Albrechtsen got her apoplexy in early, lamenting the fact that Kevin Rudd doesn’t read Hayek (apparently Ayaan Hirsi Ali [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Europe, History, International, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Amartya Sen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Capitalism, G20, GFC, Giovanni Arrighi, global financial crisis, gordon brown, Hayek, Janet Albrechtsen, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Keynes, London, Markets, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, neo-liberalism, political economy, public intellectual, public interest, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Institute |
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 January 2, 2009
Gary Sauer-Thompson has trained an observant eye on an editorial in the Fin: Yes, the road ahead looks difficult. But this is no time to abandon our faith in the capacity for enterprises and markets free of oppressive state intervention [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged economic liberalism, Economics, efficient markets hypothesis, Enlightenment, Enlightenment thought, epistemology, faith, global financial crisis, ideologies, John Quiggin, liberalism, mixed economy, neoliberalism, Religion, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 3, 2008
It’s hard to know whether to blame the pollies or the press gallery more for the sorry standard of political and economic debate in this country. Did that golden age Paul Kelly used to talk about when Paul Keating had [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Economics, Government, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, behavioural economics, cats claws, collective action, dialectic, economic management, economic sociology, economists, fiscal policy, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, interest rates, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberals, LIBOR, lived economy, Malcolm Turnbull, non-farm growth, Paul Krugman, political economy, reserve bank, Rudd government, shared realities, social construction, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unemployment, us economy |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 21, 2008
The Poll Bludger has the numbers on the latest Nielsen poll for Victoria. Labor leads on the 2PP 55-45. The Age trumpets this result as Victorian Labor “defying the national trend”. No doubt other papers are saying the same – [...]
Posted in Elections, Media, Polls, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections, Victoria | Tagged AC Nielsen, ALP, Anna Bligh, epistemology, john brumby, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Media, political narrative, political science, political sociology, Polls, psephology, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, social facts, sociology of knowledge, state labor, state politics, truth effect, Victorian Labor, Victorian politics |
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 Mark Bahnisch on October 27, 2008
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who found the juxtaposition on the news last night of discussion of global regulation at a meeting between Chinese and EU leaders and George W. Bush’s “free markets are great!” remarks rather [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Europe, Foreign Elections, Health, International, Markets, Polls, Sociology | Tagged alan greenspan, Barack Obabama, Bretton Woods II, business cycles, Capitalism, Democrats, economic policy, Economics, efficient markets hypothesis, financial markets, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, GOP, healthcare, ideology, John McCain, John Quiggin, Keynesianism, neo-liberalism, regulation, socialism, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, taxes, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 24, 2008
I kinda wish Kevin Rudd had never put his thoughts on Friedrich Von Hayek on paper, because had he not we’d have been saved some appallingly ill-informed “debates”. Although, if expert psephologist Janet Albrechtsen is right, Rudd’s articles on Howard’s [...]
Posted in Economics, History, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged alan wood, austrian economics, austrian economists, bank deposit guarantee, brutopia, collective action, economic policy, economic thought, Economics, epistemology, financial markets, free market, Friedrich Von Hayek, global financial crisis, historicism, ideology, Janet Albrechtsen, Kevin Rudd, Markets, Max Weber, methodensreit, neo-liberalism, philosophy of history, philosophy of social science, Rudd government, social action, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unintended consequences |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 21, 2008
I can’t recall where I read this, but someone in one of the many interesting things written about the global financial crisis suggested that “Keynes” (of whom we’ve heard more lately than we’ve heard for a long time) might be [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Adam Smith, Bretton Woods, credit swaps, derivatives, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis, gordon brown, Joseph Stiglitz, Kevin Rudd, Keynes, Keynesianism, Markets, neo-liberalism, political economy, political sociology, sociology of knowledge, subprime mortgages, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2008
As a supplement to earlier posts on the sociology of the global financial crisis from Kim and dk.au, I thought I’d note something very interesting written by Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber. Farrell traces the shift in paradigm in the [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, City of London, credit crisis, economic sociology, financial crisis, financial markets, financial regulation, globalisation, gordon brown, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, Jon Cruddas, Labour, neoliberalism, New Labour, political economy, political sociology, Robert Skidelsky, social democracy, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, sub prime crisis, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
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