Since Thatcher gained power we have always been told how it is competition that ensures the survival of the fittest and this is the way that societies advance. I’m not sure that Darwinian advances were ever actually widely thought to operate on this level, as it was more of a system indicating long term progress… Read more
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Neoliberalism
Our Institutions No Longer Serve This New Era. The Public Understand, Why Haven’t We?
Feel I should flag up a talk “Our Institutions No Longer Serve This New Era. The Public Understand, Why Haven’t We?” on last Wednesday week’s ′21st-Century Power: the state, citizens and civil society’ event in London. The Labour MP for Wigan, Lisa Nandy, was reported verbatim by the [link]’Huffington Post’ and this is well worth… Read more
Not so healthy
An interesting article on the Health Committee’s recent report suggests that privatisation is not as simple as we’re encouraged to believe by this and previous government’s. In an earlier blog I suggested that donors were unduly influencing our ‘democracy’ and here is an instance – the Tory Party has received donations, it is suggested, from… Read more
What the real ‘new economy’ has given us:
I cannot vouch for the precise figures – which, I think come from America, but I cannot disagee with the sentiment. That insidious plan, Neoliberalism, has been all too succcessful…. Read more
A solution to imposed austerity?
In an interesting article actually written before the collapse of the Genoa flyover a group of Milanese Italians promoting ‘Fiscal Money’ suggest that Italy should introduce its own parallel currency in the Eurozone. ” Rome can regain control of its monetary policy without breaking the rules of the eurozone.” They continue: Our proposal is for… Read more
Framing the economy (continued)- Project Household
Having earlier tried to demonstrate that the economy is a construct to enable greater overall prosperity, and that money within it usually serves to derail this value, there is no avoiding the most recurring misinterpretation – that the economy works like any old household. Unless Project Airbus can be seen as a household the economy… Read more
Framing the Economy (continued) – Project Value
It is likely that those of you at the back of the class will have overlooked the fact that in my Project Airbus suggestion for framing the economy, money was never mentioned. No need to worry – if the economy is considered as the archetypal joint effort, then money in the economy is just part… Read more
Framing the economy – Project Airbus
A while ago the New Economics Foundation issued a paper on framing the economy. It was really a series of focus groups set up to try to establish how the public see the economy. All very interesting, but not in the end very helpful, simply because there was nothing to build on that would really… Read more
Budgetary Sleight of Hand
This is rather a good video from Momentum. It is in the same vein as Simon Wren-Lewis’s suggestion that Conservative budgetary aims are based on deceit not ignorance: Sam has got just one question – and if anyone can answer it, he'll vote for the @Conservatives for the rest of his life. pic.twitter.com/FJLXqQtNq8 —… Read more
TheFullBrexit.Com
Am I really offering a link to a Brexit site? Yes, I fear, I really am! And just because, whilst I do think they have the best of intentions, they are not correct. They suggest – and this is probably true – that the collapse of UKIP shows that people are prepared to accept the… Read more