Comments on: David Brooks and the Infrastructure of Technocratic Control http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/ The Sweet Release of Reason Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Will Wilkinson http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12306 Will Wilkinson Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:07:20 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12306 Hey Kip, FYI, I wrote about that <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2008/02/equality_before_the_law_as_arm.cfm" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Hey Kip, FYI, I wrote about that here.

]]> By: Will Wilkinson http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12316 Will Wilkinson Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:07:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12316 Hey Kip, FYI, I wrote about that <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2008/02/equality_before_the_law_as_arm.cfm" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Hey Kip, FYI, I wrote about that here.

]]> By: KipEsquire http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12305 KipEsquire Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:52:40 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12305 <i>"if, say, more women spend more time in the kitchen, pregnant, rather than competing for social esteem on an equal footing with men, then the state is ready with its managerial tools to reshape our incentives"</i> <a href="http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1203123034.shtml" rel="nofollow">Yup</a>. “if, say, more women spend more time in the kitchen, pregnant, rather than competing for social esteem on an equal footing with men, then the state is ready with its managerial tools to reshape our incentives”

Yup.

]]> By: KipEsquire http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12315 KipEsquire Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:52:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12315 <i>"if, say, more women spend more time in the kitchen, pregnant, rather than competing for social esteem on an equal footing with men, then the state is ready with its managerial tools to reshape our incentives"</i> <a href="http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1203123034.shtml" rel="nofollow">Yup</a>. “if, say, more women spend more time in the kitchen, pregnant, rather than competing for social esteem on an equal footing with men, then the state is ready with its managerial tools to reshape our incentives”
Yup.

]]> By: TGGP http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12304 TGGP Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:50:34 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12304 Mencius, goodness is normative. Social science tends to follow the lines of Milton Friedman's "Essays in Positive Economics". Mencius, goodness is normative. Social science tends to follow the lines of Milton Friedman’s “Essays in Positive Economics”.

]]> By: TGGP http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12314 TGGP Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:50:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12314 Mencius, goodness is normative. Social science tends to follow the lines of Milton Friedman's "Essays in Positive Economics". Mencius, goodness is normative. Social science tends to follow the lines of Milton Friedman’s “Essays in Positive Economics”.

]]> By: wph http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12303 wph Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:39:06 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12303 I sometimes like David Brooks, and think that he can be very perceptive at times. However, this column was a disaster, start to finish. He spends most of it on the fresh idea of putting education at the top of a Republican president's agenda. Wasn't Bush th Elder the "education president", and didn't Bush the Younger give us NCLB as part of the centerpiece of his domestic program? So the schools must be fixed by now, I would assume. Then Brooks trots out the stale, horrible idea of "National Service", as if giving that large a pool of labor would be used well by the government. Ugh. I sometimes like David Brooks, and think that he can be very perceptive at times. However, this column was a disaster, start to finish. He spends most of it on the fresh idea of putting education at the top of a Republican president’s agenda. Wasn’t Bush th Elder the “education president”, and didn’t Bush the Younger give us NCLB as part of the centerpiece of his domestic program? So the schools must be fixed by now, I would assume. Then Brooks trots out the stale, horrible idea of “National Service”, as if giving that large a pool of labor would be used well by the government. Ugh.

]]> By: wph http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12313 wph Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:39:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12313 I sometimes like David Brooks, and think that he can be very perceptive at times. However, this column was a disaster, start to finish. He spends most of it on the fresh idea of putting education at the top of a Republican president's agenda. Wasn't Bush th Elder the "education president", and didn't Bush the Younger give us NCLB as part of the centerpiece of his domestic program? So the schools must be fixed by now, I would assume. Then Brooks trots out the stale, horrible idea of "National Service", as if giving that large a pool of labor would be used well by the government. Ugh. I sometimes like David Brooks, and think that he can be very perceptive at times. However, this column was a disaster, start to finish. He spends most of it on the fresh idea of putting education at the top of a Republican president’s agenda. Wasn’t Bush th Elder the “education president”, and didn’t Bush the Younger give us NCLB as part of the centerpiece of his domestic program? So the schools must be fixed by now, I would assume. Then Brooks trots out the stale, horrible idea of “National Service”, as if giving that large a pool of labor would be used well by the government. Ugh.

]]> By: Jeff http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12302 Jeff Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:47:38 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12302 I have to say, I rather enjoyed the use of the term "positive government" in that statement. I guess since the Bush years have more or less defiled the term "compassionate conservatism" as a political slogan, this is what Brooks and his allies have fallen back on. The fact that "positive government" is a term that was about equally likely to appear in a Paul Krugman or Frank Rich column should tell you just about all you need to know. I have to say, I rather enjoyed the use of the term “positive government” in that statement. I guess since the Bush years have more or less defiled the term “compassionate conservatism” as a political slogan, this is what Brooks and his allies have fallen back on.

The fact that “positive government” is a term that was about equally likely to appear in a Paul Krugman or Frank Rich column should tell you just about all you need to know.

]]> By: Jeff http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12307 Jeff Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:47:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/15/david-brooks-and-the-infrastructure-of-technocratic-control/#comment-12307 I have to say, I rather enjoyed the use of the term "positive government" in that statement. I guess since the Bush years have more or less defiled the term "compassionate conservatism" as a political slogan, this is what Brooks and his allies have fallen back on. The fact that "positive government" is a term that was about equally likely to appear in a Paul Krugman or Frank Rich column should tell you just about all you need to know. I have to say, I rather enjoyed the use of the term “positive government” in that statement. I guess since the Bush years have more or less defiled the term “compassionate conservatism” as a political slogan, this is what Brooks and his allies have fallen back on.

The fact that “positive government” is a term that was about equally likely to appear in a Paul Krugman or Frank Rich column should tell you just about all you need to know.

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