Comments on: Introduction: Progressive politics after the financial crisis

By: Shashi Bhushan Sharma

Shashi Bhushan Sharma — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:00:06 +0000

Dear Olaf and Elena,

The only difference between a man and a machine is – man can think and machine can not and the difference between a man and a man is – truth and lies.

Markets and governments do not operate at it’s own, somebody is needed to operate and run them and none is talking about this somebody.

The talks of free or regulated economies are meaningless when they are to be operated by the one’s for whom satisfying the calls of the bodies is a top priority. This is the only appetite which always remain unfulfilled and dissatisfied individuals can never be the successful leaders under any circumstances.

Our priorities in finding the solutions are incorrect, they may give us temporary solutios but to find the permanent solutions we have to have the right priorities.

The situation where we have reached today is not the result of a one day development.

I will continue with my viewpoint upon listening from your side.

Regards,
Shashi Bhushan Sharma
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By: Bina

Bina — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:07:41 +0000

An emphasis on transperancy and return of ethics and moderation of material greed would be in order.

By: GINO LOFREDO

GINO LOFREDO — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:42:59 +0000

¿Dónde accedemos a versión del documento en español?

Lofredo

By: Paul Massey

Paul Massey — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:29:20 +0000

Please feed in to http://we20.org. We need to work out how to work together. thanks Paul

By: James Hickey

James Hickey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:23:03 +0000

This booklet of ideas makes fascinating reading. Issues that strike me – the casino/utility discussion ; the concept of de-globalisation as a response to the recession ; the ideas about social contract, especially the latin-american perspectives ; the idea that capitalist production, fuelled by information technology, has out-stripped the capacity of nation states to absorb it i.e. the evidence that the higher level incomes have increased significantly relative to median and lower income levels .. Look forward to the outcomes of the debate .. this is the fourth phase of post War capitalism coming up …

By: Mike Bennett

Mike Bennett — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:52:28 +0000

Hi Olaf and Elena

Looks good what you are doing – it’s important to talk about this as much as possible.

I think there is a perspective that you don’t yet have. Which is not economics but collapsonomics. Your contributors all assume that this is a soluble problem and that while things get worse, they will still respond to the kind of economic stimuli we currently use.

I suggest that you also need to look at more scary scenarios – one of which is that global inflation caused by all the money printing will bring down the financial system.

Dmitry Orlov would, I’m sure, give
you better perspective on this!

Best Wishes from London

Mike

By: pgc2009

pgc2009 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:53:52 +0000

Dear Anna,
Thanks for your response. This site will be checked regularly as people share their responses but these are all the essays being published.
To follow the conference as it happens go to http://pgc09.wordpress.com
Once the conference gets going we’ll be updating it all the time!

By: AnnaHopn

AnnaHopn — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:00:12 +0000

Greatings,
Amazing! Not clear for me, how offen you updating your progressive-governance.net.

Thank you
AnnaHopn