Care: the essay
This essay is the third of three starting with my essay on the Evaluator General in two parts followed by an essay responding to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into competition...
Care
Part One Note: this post has been superseded by the full essay. A couple of days ago I came upon care ethics via Virginia Held's book The...
If I had a hammer: or Is change we can’t theorise, change we can believe in? Part Two
This post and its first part are condensed in this blog post at NESTA. “What is elementary, worldly wisdom? Well, the first rule is that...
The politics of envy or something more worthy?
One of the most successful memes of the right in the last decade or so is that redistribution is the politics of envy. Of course...
Adam Smith is to Markets as Jane Austen is to Marriage
For those who've read the essay below and have no desire to re-read it, my apologies. I didn't post it at the time out of...
Capitalism – making life better
Adam Smith had this idea that 'commercial society' made a lot of things better, particularly improving the politics and mores of earlier social structures. As...
Feedback: Waiting for the deluge
From the abstract to a recent article. In this research, we assess whether the number of public comments filed in response to proposed agency rules...