Discursive collapse – discursive reversal: the micro-foundations
I've written about the phenomenon of discursive collapse several times on Troppo. The engine behind the phenomenon is the desire of the discipline to get on...
Overton Window – Overton Juggernaut: Part Three
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="334"] Warning, this diagram came up in a Google image search and is not to be taken too seriously. It's a jungle...
Overton Window – Overton Juggernaut: Part Two
Continued from Part One yesterday. [caption id="attachment_22531" align="alignright" width="404"] Well folks, when I put "Overton Window - Overton Juggernaut" into Google and looked for an...
Overton Window – Overton Juggernaut: Part One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVAmGArS0tU The Overton Window is a quite well known expression describing the demarcation between political/policy discussion that is and is not acceptable in mainstream discussion....
Professionalism as tyranny: a liberationist fantasy
Adam Smith put it memorably above. I'll be forever grateful for my time at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation because it has shown me the generality...
Bitcoin: Micro-economic miracle worker and macro-economic wrecking ball
https://youtu.be/lUF6klWuB38 Yes, folks, every now and again you hear yourself talking in sound-bytes - well I do anyway. It's kind of fun - like when you look at those...