I was asked to try and define the political position of ‘left technocrat’. The goals are left. Left because it acknowledges that wealth is distributed unequally for reasons unrelated in many cases to merit, and as often as not distributed as a result of history, ie. one’s parents were rich and class replicates its class …
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In an attempt to start a dialog about the current political moment, with the US of Donald Trump, the UK of Brexit, and the France of Macron and the Yellow Jackets, I put out the following thoughts... There seem to be some common political cleavages in the US, France, and the UK, but the political …
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In today's NYT, Michael Tomasky posits inflation as the central cause of the turn away from New Deal Keynsianism. He certainly makes a good case that it was a prime propaganda tool fueling the Thatcher/Reagan, et al "revolution." But could it also have been a sign of a deeper limit to capitalist progress, one at …
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Honored . . . no, HAPPY to be invited to join the Left Technocrat Discussion Forum. "How can that be, Harris, you a hardcore Luddite?" "That's 'Luddite Hardcore'," I reply, "my musical genre (see the music festival I work on at HONKfest.org)." A LEFT technocrat critiques the technocracy in order to bend it to human …
I am a progressive urban planner and urban planning PhD from Columbia University. I have helped to initiate and implement many bus rapid transit (BRT) systems around the world. BRT is a way of giving people a fast and environmentally friendly trip everyday for a modest public expenditure. Its a technocratic left solution to a …
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