I'd seen the article on Tony Blair's institute and find his technocratic vision rather chilling, especially given his links with tech billionaires.
I also saw a retrospective film by Ken Loach about the steelworkers' strike in 1980, a year into Thatcher's experiment with market based decision making. It was interesting how the rank and file saw taking redundancy payment as selling jobs and extracting from community security, a vision of the common good that was directly attacked by Thatcher/capital. Also, I listened to a lecture by Mariana Mazzucato who is going to publish a book on Common Good Economics.
I'd seen the article on Tony Blair's institute and find his technocratic vision rather chilling, especially given his links with tech billionaires.
I also saw a retrospective film by Ken Loach about the steelworkers' strike in 1980, a year into Thatcher's experiment with market based decision making. It was interesting how the rank and file saw taking redundancy payment as selling jobs and extracting from community security, a vision of the common good that was directly attacked by Thatcher/capital. Also, I listened to a lecture by Mariana Mazzucato who is going to publish a book on Common Good Economics.
Thanks for the recommendations, Kathryn.