February 2012
23 posts
Oil Price in € (Brent) Chart
alea:
“The limited evidence that does exist on workfare indicates that:
…
There is...”
– Department for Work and Pensions Research Report No 533 A comparative review of workfare programmes in the United States, Canada and Australia
Richard Crisp and Del Roy Fletcher
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2007-2008/rrep533.pdf
(via vindicatrix)
Special People - Ch.4 of Everything Is Obvious by... →
hautepop:
A clear and convincing take-down of the notion that (a) influencers exist, and (b) marketing at them is worth doing.
To summarise the key points:
1. Six degrees of separation does in fact exist - but it doesn’t work the way most people think it does. When we imagine these chains we assume they must work through celebrities, leaders, & other social connectors - whereas in fact...
Watchthebodiespolitic:
A Liberal Peace?: The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding
“All the while, the chatter in euro policy circles, as I wrote on Monday, is that...”
– Things People Are Saying About Greece Right Now - http://blogs.channel4.com/faisal-islam-on-economics/eurozone-reaches-its-lehman-moment-as-germany-insults-greece/16278
“While the crisis at Bear stunned the markets, other financial institutions have...”
– Things People Said Days Before Lehman Brothers Collapsed #3 - http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b3506214-80d5-11dd-82dd-000077b07658.html#axzz1mXeJ33ET
“Unlike Bear Stearns, which effectively collapsed when customers fled for the...”
– Things People Said Days Before Lehman Brothers Collapsed #2 - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/business/10place.html?pagewanted=all
“Mr Paulson believes that the systemic risks associated with the potential...”
– Things People Said Days Before Lehman Brothers Collapsed #1 - http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f3586ede-80ca-11dd-82dd-000077b07658.html#axzz1mXeJ33ET
“There is a line by Walter Benjamin … revolutions are “pulling the emergency...”
– Capitalism, the infernal machine: An interview with Fredric Jameson on Rabble.ca by Aaron Leonard (via vindicatrix)
Causal Mechanisms and Process Tracing
“Observing Causal Mechanisms with Process-Tracing Methods – The Benefits of Using a ‘Mechanism’ Understanding of Causality”
“What is Process-Tracing Actually Tracing? The Three Variants of Process Tracing Methods and Their Uses and Limitations”
-Rasmus Brun Pedersen and Derek Beach
Engineering an Orderly Greek Debt Restructuring →
alea:
For some months now, discussions over how Greece will restructure its debt have been constrained by the requirement that the deal be “voluntary” – implying that Greece would continue debt service to any creditors that choose retain their old bonds rather than tender them in an exchange offer. In light of Greece’s deep solvency problems and lack of agreement with its creditors so far, the...
Travelling light in a time of digital espionage →
hautepop:
When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film.
He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings “loaner” devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his...
“Over the course of the next 40 years, Gandhi and his movement were regularly...”
– David Graeber on Gandhi and violent/non-violent protest - http://nplusonemag.com/concerning-the-violent-peace-police
“Marx’s argument amounts to this: any project to deliver a classless...”
– accelerationism (from paul mason, why it’s kicking off everywhere)
Precarity Everywhere
“The figure of the adjunct is a mere instantiation of a more general phenomenon. Rather than producing industrial commodities (classical labor), or creating informational and cultural content (immaterial labor), or being part of a particular income group (the 99%), the modern worker in general is defined by precarious existence.”
Some thoughts on academia and precarity more...
“The basic question: Is Facebook more like a newspaper or more like a factory?...”
– Alexander Galloway, from Facebook
“Quantitative easing involves [the Bank of England] buying one type of financial...”
– on the ambiguous stimulus effects of quantitative easing (and why it’s not just a matter of giving money to banks). http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=18007
January 2012
8 posts
“For employers, [Richard] Sennett writes, the ideal product of school and...”
– Paul Mason, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere
“Yet impersonal forces could have drastically personal consequences, in this...”
– Francis Spufford, Red Plenty
