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It may be that some of the [small c] conservatives are in UKIP. bjg
Commented Nov 9, 2013 on Is conservatism dead? at Stumbling and Mumbling
Is conservatism dead?
Whatever happened to good, genuine conservatism? I'm prompted to ask by a post by Ben Cobley. He says that a debate about immigration which focuses only upon economics misses the point - that immigration also matters because it challenges our sense of home and community. In this, Ben is echoing ...
"Revolutions are made not by the most wretched people, but by those who have the power and motive to effect change."
It is possible that the revolution is already under way, made (just as you say) by those with "the power and motive to effect change", but that those folk are the Type I people and that their revolution is moving in a direction that is not the one you would like to see.
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Commented Oct 12, 2013 on Abundance & revolution at Stumbling and Mumbling
Abundance & revolution
Frances Coppola asks: what would an economy look like if or when it combines the superabundance described by John and the ageing population described by Rick? First, a note of scepticism. The first industrial revolution didn't create lasting mass unemployment, so why should the next? And Keynes'...
Perhaps there is a fourth possibility: that employers are more interested in predictability than in productivity, because they want to reduce the risks they incur in making contractual commitments to their customers. bjg
Commented Feb 22, 2013 on Happiness, work & productivity at Stumbling and Mumbling
Happiness, work & productivity
"A happy worker is a productive worker". This might seem like a vomitorious cliche, but some experiments at the University of Warwick suggest that it's true. Economists paid people to solve some tedious maths problems. They found that subjects who were shown a short comedy film beforehand solved...
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