I’m not that sure elite public servants read TVHE, and if they did I don’t think they’d think terribly much of it. But I like where your head is at. I should try to improve the quality of my posting then 😉

Just with a bit of a lag!

Disagreement is perfectly fair enough, I’m just glad we can put down our respective points of view 🙂

My main issue with economic management isn’t that I don’t want government involved in helping with coordination – it is that the language of economic management can be used to obfuscate issues and hide things. The goal we likely have as a society is around “wellbeing”, and political parties are arguing about policies based on different beliefs regarding what wellbeing is and the trade-offs involved – management speak with an “output” focus on measured variables betrays how complicated this truly is, and can be used to justify harmful actions (especially in the case of something like mass surveillance).

Fair enough. I disagree.

I disagree about “..economic management…” language too. To paraphrase someone famous the only thing worse than economic management is no economic management.

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I’m ok with slow progress on policy as long as we have appropriate institutions in place.

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This is Matt, I am just on my phone and not signed in 🙂

As I said, my view of many of the minor parties is tarnished by the Alliance. I have little faith that, in joining with Labor, they will enact more than cosmetic change – I see their rhetoric as empty. This is reinforced by the “economic management” language that is so heavily used – as this type of language itself helps to justify the form of institutional degradation I’m concerned about.

However, if they do enact significant transparent change post-election it would have a very positive effect on my view of the party. Very positive.