Tuesday, August 20, 2019

How did it Happen? The fashion for reform part II

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We take managerialism for granted – even although it didn’t exist in the 1960s. “Managerial” then was only an adjective and, thanks to Jame...
Monday, August 19, 2019

The invisible power of the managerial ideology

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For some 50 years I’ve been chewing over the question of how the organisations that run our public services might be “managed better”. Inde...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Not in front of the children!

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If ever there was a subject calculated to divide opinions and families in europe, it is immigration . It is not one which this blog often c...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Changing the Beast – being part V of a series

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In certain circles, to be accused of trying to reform – rather than transform – capitalism has long been one of the gravest criticisms . No...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

The Future of Capitalism - IV

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“Acknowledgements” are normally the least-read section of any book – into which are pored often embarrassingly-excessive expression of than...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Can the genie be put back in the bottle? part III of the discussion of Collier's Future of Capitalism

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Half-way through writing this post I discovered that the great Branko Milanovic was also these days thinking and writing about Paul Collie...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Communitarianism, anyone?

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Is a communitarian agenda a possibility for British – or any – politics these days? This question arises from the appearance in the past ...