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The technocratic agenda (4.00 / 2)
A significant meme, especially within FG, has been the promotion of a technocratic over a political agenda, including proposals to give key government departments to those with 'relevant expertise'.  This is of a piece with the establishment of a local comprador elite to implement EU policy.

However, I can't see how any of this is going to stave off the next round of European bank / sovereign insolvencies; so whoever is elected in our little spasm of token representative democracy will have a tiger by the tail.

I fantasize that this might be a FG/FF coalition, possibly finishing both the civil war parties off in one go.

by Pope Epopt on Thu Feb 17th, 2011 at 08:39:59 AM EST
Re: The technocratic agenda (4.00 / 3)
Pope Epopt:
the promotion of a technocratic over a political agenda
Everything is political. Neoclassical economics claims to be technocratic and not political. Classical marginalist economics claimed to be more objective and therefore that they could dispense with the label political economy, which was "relegated" to a branch of sociology.

Keynesianism is intellectually hard, as evidenced by the inability of many trained economists to get it - Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 17th, 2011 at 08:58:40 AM EST
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except that sociologists didn't buy it and Marxist sociologists relegated classical economics to a branch of the ideological superstructure of the state....

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Thu Feb 17th, 2011 at 09:10:44 AM EST
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Absolutely - I assumed that - technocratic = political maintenance of the status quo.
by Pope Epopt on Thu Feb 17th, 2011 at 09:47:36 AM EST
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But that is a subversion of the term.

Keynesianism is intellectually hard, as evidenced by the inability of many trained economists to get it - Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 17th, 2011 at 09:54:25 AM EST
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Merkel and Barroso promote compliant Irish Government (Updated) | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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