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Comment on Curious Utopias by ikpeba

ikpeba — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:16:00 +0000

http://wealthoflabour.wordpress.com

Comment on Curious Utopias by Monday Night Links! | Gerry Canavan

Monday Night Links! | Gerry Canavan — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:59:30 +0000

[...] * Peter Frase has more on Universal Basic Income as utopia. [...]

Comment on Curious Utopias by Will Shetterly

Will Shetterly — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:04:00 +0000

The concern about the Namibia example is valid, but the Canadian example should not be ignored. The path has to be different in different places.

Comment on Curious Utopias by Tom Walker

Tom Walker — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:31:00 +0000

What if I was to mix up a bit of Andre Gorz (Critique of Economic Reason) with Peter Barnes (Who Owns the Air?)?

http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-moon-belongs-to-everyone.html

Comment on Porno for Pirates by Multiheaded

Multiheaded — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:37:00 +0000

BUT WHERE'S TEH PICTURE?!

Comment on The Perils of Wonkery by Alf Hickey

Alf Hickey — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:57:00 +0000

I'd like to see some of that empirical evidence for crowding out.

Comment on The Perils of Wonkery by Somewhere else, part 52 | Freakonometrics

Somewhere else, part 52 | Freakonometrics — Sun, 12 May 2013 01:26:06 +0000

[...] Your Life” http://.nextnewdeal.net/rorybomb/… by rortybomb (which is some kind of answer to http://peterfrase.com/&#8230 . This post was mentioned in “In Praise of Econowonkery” [...]

Comment on The Perils of Wonkery by Anthony Juan Bautista

Anthony Juan Bautista — Sat, 11 May 2013 19:49:00 +0000

excellent. really great writing....

Comment on De-commodification in Everyday Life by Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income?

Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income? — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:26:44 +0000

[...] such as education or health care. As the welfare-state theorist Gøsta Esping-Andersen argued, decommodification is defined as a situation in which “a service is rendered as a matter of right, and when a person can [...]

Comment on The Perils of Wonkery by Alf Hickey

Alf Hickey — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:27:00 +0000

It seems like you believe a wonk is a jounalist who blogs graphs, This is a very strange definition. You are simply complaining about journalists not wonks. A wonk just means a policy expert, it doesn't desperate acedrmics from journalist, but it does imply a tedious punt of technical competence. Every liberal wonk blog has been complaining about r and r for years.

Doug Henwood could be considered a wonk because he is very knowledgable about the inner workings of the financial system. For this reason he is one of the most respected leftists in liberal wonk circles. Contrast him with graeber who was rejected for getting details wrong.