5. Neoliberal economies are here to stay.
January 11, 2019
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Neoliberal economies are enveloped within a fable that the more networked and expansive economies become, the more wealth trickles down to include everyone....
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4. We must get better at delivery.
Before institutions can be effective at delivering required goods and services, citizens at the receiving end of those services must know what they truly...
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3. The more data and science we can bring to understanding what is wrong, the closer we will be to solving the world’s most intractable problems.
Facts and figures are important, but when it comes to sense-making around complex challenges, thick data matters more than thin or Big Data....
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2. Our good life will be protected by consumer rights and the invisible hand of the free market.
The notion that our good life is to be found in the consumption of goods and services flies in the face of studies in...
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1. We are evolving from primitive to civilized.
So-called primitive societies should not be understood as failed attempts at being civilized, they should be understood for their incredible adaptive abilities....
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10 Deficit-based Assumptions that must be debunked
We will be broadening the scope of the conversation to consider changing the narrative in ten key areas....
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How Policies Can Invert Democracy
To date the BY spaces have been known for the sum of their problems, not for their abundance of hospitality, gift-giving capacity or associational...
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Can I Help You?
“Can I help you?” is an often-asked question, yet helping can cause unintended harm: that realization places us at a moral crossroads....
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Off the Roundabout
When we preclude citizen power, and chose technocratic solutions over democratic ones we lose the opportunity to address the root problems that cause the...
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Bridging The Gap – Expert to Alongsider
Done to the people; Done for the people; Done with the people; Done •by• the people. This is the path of transitions from institutional...
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Beware of the Progressives Part 2: Intermediate Innovation
Overreach: going beyond one’s personal or institutional capacity to a point where a person or organisation becomes counter-productive....
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Beware of the Progressives (Part 1)
The harsh reality is that some of the folk who appear socially progressive, are more interested in career progress than in authentic social change....
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