Whatever happened to progressivism?
19 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, Leftover Left, quackery
Good summary of my experience posting on left-wing blogs
14 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: blogging, information cocoons, infotainment, infotopia, Leftover Left
Australian top 1% has dropped the ball in the class struggle
10 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic growth, economic history, labour economics, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Rawls and Nozick Tags: class struggle, immiseration of the proletariat, Leftover Left, top 1%
How is the immiseration of the proletariat going to occur any time soon, and with it, the workers will rise up because they have nothing to lose but their chains, if the Australian top 1% doesn’t lift its game.
There is a serious lack of greed and expropriation of labour surplus by the top 1% in Australia. Their share of income has been falling for many decades and only increased in the last few years and then only slightly.
The top 1% is supposed to be grinding the working class down, and causing crisis after financial crisis but there’s hardly any of evidence of that in Australian income inequality data.
Competing visions of success – left and right
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: activists, distributive justice, do gooders, expressive voting, Leftover Left, poverty and inequality, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, top 1%
The Left and Right approaches to poverty
01 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, liberalism, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: capitalism and freedom, Leftover Left, poverty and inequality, The Great Enrichment
A great hard left critique of the Greens continued
31 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in environmentalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: activists, British politics, do gooders, environmental movement, expressive voting, Greens, Leftover Left
A great hard left critique of the Greens
30 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in environmentalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: activists, do gooders, expressive voting, Leftover Left, The Greens, UK politics
History of cultural bias has led to a lack of diversity in green and left-wing groups
29 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: activists, Greens, Inner-city Left, Leftover Left
Minorities represent nearly 40 percent of Americans, yet account for fewer than 16 percent of workers at the government agencies, nongovernmental organizations called NGOs and foundations that were studied.
…Taylor wrote that an “unconscious bias” exists within the liberal and progressive culture of the groups, preserving a racially homogenous workplace. “Recruitment for new staff frequently occurs through word-of-mouth and informal networks,” the study said. “This makes it difficult for ethnic minorities, the working class, or anyone outside of traditional environmental networks to find out about job openings and apply for those jobs.”
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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