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DOGE wasn't just a failed experiment—it was the latest chapter in a fifty-year project to dismantle state capacity. The question should have been obvious from the start: efficient at what, and for whom? New piece examining how efficiency rhetoric serves as cover for systematic value extraction ➡️ marianamazzucato.substack.co…
More on the myth of ‘start-up government’ with Rainer Kattel ➡️ project-syndicate.org/commen…
More on the value extraction of Generative AI with @FaustoGernone ➡️ project-syndicate.org/onpoin…
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Labour pledged to halve government spending on consultants, yet it rose by £150m in their first year. #TheBigCon continues: without serious investment in public sector capacity and a mindset change to empower government delivery, departments will keep outsourcing core capabilities to private firms.
Read The Big Con (co-authored with @RosieCollingto) ➡️ marianamazzucato.com/books/t…
cityam.com/government-consul…
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Result of the massive increase in defence spending in USA, UK, and EU? 1. Cuts to essential social services (and development eg ODA) 2. If we produce more weapons, gotta use em right? So let’s go to war left and right. Both already playing out and senselessly hurting/killing lives.
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Is this new system we are moving to even Capitalism, or is just Feudalism with modern technology?
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🚨 New Report 🚨
'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development'
Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities
Available here // sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/…
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Labour market economists have been obsessed with the question of whether technology will replace market demand for human labour.
But my question is different:
What if tech replaces NON-MARKET DEMAND.
And that’s precisely what we see: surging solitude.
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#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princ…
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American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Every time I watch It’s A Wonderful Life I never fail to cry, and then I think of this as Lynch himself swells up in tears. Rest in Peace.
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Bro are you ok? You seem to be beating against the current while being borne back ceaselessly into the past
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It is publication day!
The Master's Tools shows how finance destroyed democracy and argues for "democratic ruptures" in the economy, which empower the demos to make investment decisions via sortition. Out with @VersoBooks now.
Please read, engage, criticize, build and share!
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It's disappointing that no conservative MPs have gone on the record about Musk's attack on Jess Phillips. Regardless of political affiliation (I do not agree with Jess’s politics), it is utterly unacceptable and dangerous.
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New @IPPR report by @pathwithanr and I looks at how we can modernise our elections, improve turnout, and make participation more equal. 🧵 1/
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In 2025, Goodwin, Farage, Tommy Robinson & co will claim to stand up for the working class by blaming migrants.
It's a sham.
They - and the economic interests behind them - prop up the scams that take from the working class to stuff the pockets of the super rich.
