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Showing posts with label technocracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technocracy. Show all posts
Thursday, September 5, 2019

Lars P. Syll — Esther Duflo vs Elinor Ostrom

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Agnès Labrouse quote.  The most revelant sentence:  While Duflo and Banerjee are in line with a technocratic democracy, the Ostroms ...
Monday, June 24, 2019

What Do the Oligarchs Have in Mind for Us? — Joel Koltin

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Does technology lead to technocracy and is technocracy a form of feudalism? Technocracy and its tendency toward neo-feudalism is based ...
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Friday, October 19, 2018

Paul Tucker — The 5 best books on The Administrative State

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Experts versus populists, bureaucracy versus democracy: Paul Tucker, former deputy governor of the Bank of England and a fellow at Harvard...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Bill Mitchell — Latest Europhile advocacy beggars belief – surrender sovereignty to regain it

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Today, I have a lot of travelling coming up. So time is tight. Regular readers will know my views on the Eurozone. I have held those views ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Bill Mitchell — Neoliberal economic Groupthink alive and well in Europe

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It is Wednesday so only a couple of snippets today. I was going to write about the BBC’s ridiculous attempt to portray Jeremy Corbyn as a s...
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Monday, March 12, 2018

Bill Mitchell — Europhile reform dreamers wake up – there will be no ‘far-reaching’ reforms

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I have now escaped the near-Arctic chill and back to warmer climes for a little while. While I was in Finland though, the Finnish news medi...
Saturday, October 7, 2017

Sebastian Heilmann — Big Data reshapes China's approach to governance

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Absolutely must-read! Economic planning and societal control: The digital transformation is changing the rules of the game in the global ...
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Monday, January 16, 2017

winterspeak — Ruled by experts? Not the Fed

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Democracy or technocracy? winterspeak Ruled by experts? Not the Fed
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

CNN — Brennan says Trump ignores intel community at nation's 'peril'

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[CIA chief John] Brennan, who spent years stationed in the Middle East, offered a sober assessment about the prospect of Western-style demo...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

William Easterly — Democracy Is Dying as Technocrats Watch

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I have no sympathy for Trump’s repulsive disregard for facts, truth, and legitimate expertise. Yet he was canny in identifying how both par...
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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Chris Dillow — Elites or people?

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Humanity doesn't have a resource problem; it has a management problem. Who most qualified to manage these resources, the people or the...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

James Petras — Brazil: The Billion Dollar Coup

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Introduction: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was removed from office through a well-organized, carefully planned operation among the co...
Monday, August 15, 2016

'FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong on the Global Economy' (1 of 3) — Sharmini Peries interviews Mark Weisbrot

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CEPR economist Mark Weisbrot says the failures of the Eurozone and European economies are due to unaccountable, unelected authorities who h...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Brian Romanchuk — Helicopter Money Is Just A Bureaucratic Power Grab

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Technocracy to replace democracy, or, better, the remnant of democracy. This is a command system. Although "Helicopter Money" d...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Jörn Bibow — Of Voices in the Air and Never-Ending Dreams of Helicopter Drops

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The debate over helicopter money rages on. Good read. Multiplier Effect Of Voices in the Air and Never-Ending Dreams of Helicopter Drops ...
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Friday, May 13, 2016

Joerg Bibow — ‘Helicopter money’ is a muddled fiscal policy by another name

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Short and to the point. Financial Times — Letters ‘Helicopter money’ is a muddled fiscal policy by another name Joerg Bibow, Professor of ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Bill Mitchell — The demise of French greatness and the European Left

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The GFC clearly, in my view, demonstrated that the political positions held by both the left- and right-wing governments in the West with r...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Stephen G. Cecchetti and Kermit L. Schoenholtz — A Primer on Central Bank Independence

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Central bank independence is controversial. It requires the delegation of powerful authority to a group of unelected officials. In a democr...
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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Patsy McGarry — Higgins says unaccountable forces are running EU

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Unaccountable forces removed from democratic control are today in control in the European Union , President Michael D Higgins has declared...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Ann Pettifor — Is capitalism “mutating” into an infotech utopia? [book review]

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I was privileged to be invited by the St. Paul’s Institute to discuss (on the 3rd November, 2015) the thesis in Paul Mason’s recent book ...