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recent bookmarks from robertogreco“Neoliberalism” isn’t an empty epithet. It’s a real, powerful set of ideas. - Vox2017-07-20T00:06:44+00:00
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/18/15992226/neoliberalism-chait-austerity-democratic-party-sanders-clinton
robertogreconeoliberalism capitalism democrats history politics 2017 mikekonczal jonathanchait billgalston elainekamarck newdeal liberalism conservatism economics policy liberalization privatization government governance josephstiglitz globalization markets berniesanders ideology dvidorsborne tedgaebler finance banking boblitan jonathanruch education corporations 1988 ronaldreaganhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7233a015cb23/These Policies Could Move America Toward a Universal Basic Income | The Nation2016-08-04T02:31:29+00:00
https://www.thenation.com/article/these-policies-could-move-america-toward-a-universal-basic-income/
robertogrecous universalbasicincome policy poverty 2016 mikekonczal canada england uk switzerland childcare childallowance labor ubihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83d2b2d61084/Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education2015-10-18T06:58:08+00:00
https://hackeducation.com/2015/10/15/technoimperialism
robertogrecoIn theory and to a significant extent in practice, anyone from anywhere in California could, if they worked hard enough, get a bachelor’s degree from one of the best universities in the country (and, therefore, in the world), almost free of charge. The pronounced social and economic mobility of the postwar period would have been unthinkable without institutions of mass higher education, like this one, provided at public expense.
When Reagan took office as Governor of California in 1967, he made it clear: public expenses would be curbed, particularly in the university system. “There are certain intellectual luxuries that perhaps we could do without,” he told reporters. Taxpayers, he said, should not be “subsidizing intellectual curiosity.” The purpose of college, in other words, was not to offer what we’ve long construed as a liberal arts education; the purpose of higher education: to learn “job skills.”
The tech industry is just the latest to latch onto this argument. “Everyone should learn to code,” we now hear.
And as the state of California – and elsewhere – has withdrawn its financial commitment to free or subsidized public higher education, who has stepped in to meet the demands? The for-profit sector.
And the tech industry is latching onto this market as well."
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"Tim Draper’s (unconstitutional) plan to split up the state of California would have completely reshaped American politics. It failed, but I think it underscores the sort of transformative vision – “the Silicon Valley narrative,” the “Californian Ideology” – that the tech industry has. This vision is not simply about “the virtual world.”
We in education would be naive, I think, to think that the designs that venture capitalists and technology entrepreneurs have for us would be any less radical than creating a new state, like Draper’s proposed state of Silicon Valley, that would enormously wealthy and politically powerful.
When I hear talk of “unbundling” in education – one of the latest gerunds you’ll hear venture capitalists and ed-tech entrepreneurs invoke, meaning the disassembling of institutions into products and services – I can’t help but think of the “unbundling” that Draper wished to do to my state: carving up land and resources, shifting tax revenue and tax burdens, creating new markets, privatizing public institutions, redistributing power and doing so explicitly not in the service of equity or justice.
Echoes of imperialism. Imperialism’s latest form."]]>california californianideology capitalism commodification education technology neoliberalism 2015 audreywatters timdraper aaronbady mikekonczal ronaldreagan richardbarbrook andycameron libertarianism inequality infrastructure privatization unbundling markzuckerberg facebook evgenymorozov connectivity injustice losangeles internet web online netneutrality politics policy economics californiamasterplan masterplanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5cc59a1b1b63/Why Are Liberals Resigned to Low Wages? | The Nation [“Focusing on unsolvable problems excuses them from dealing with tough political problems.”]2015-03-17T22:22:01+00:00
https://www.thenation.com/article/200257/score-wages-liberal-nihilism
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http://jacobinmag.com/2012/11/economic-personalities-for-our-grandchildren/
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http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/from-master-plan-to-no-plan-the-slow-death-of-public-higher-education
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