{"id":17657,"date":"2014-07-01T16:46:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17657"},"modified":"2014-07-01T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:47:50","slug":"simon_head_innovatino_and_its_potential_to_damage_society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/07\/01\/simon_head_innovatino_and_its_potential_to_damage_society\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Head: Innovation And Its Potential To Damage Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Institute For New Economic Thinking (INET)<\/em> has the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/ineteconomics.org\/new-economic-thinking\/simon-head-innovation-and-its-potential-damage-society\" title=\"The Institute For New Economic Thinking interview\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Head: Innovation And Its Potential To Damage Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe benefits of innovation are seldom questioned.  Virtually every single growth initiative formulated by governments around the world to deal with today&#8217;s challenging economic conditions invariably circles back to the need to promote innovation as a panacea.  <\/p>\n<p>But what if innovation is not an unalloyed good for society?  What if it simply adds to our current dystopian dysfunction?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_KSZ2s6STXU?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>It is rather depressing to think that I have been part of the problem all along. What is ultimately questioned is the tendency in macro economics whether of the neo-liberal (conservative) kind or the progressive kind to think that more knowledge and control of the mechanics of the economy will lead to a better world.<\/p>\n<p>More concern with the social impacts on individuals needs to get much more focus from the field of economics.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that struck me was the discussion about SAP.  For one reason or the other, I am quite aware of the world wide dominance of this German company in the field of software for managing large corporations.  In a thoroughly scientific, 100% sample of people sitting in my home office with me, I find, as expected, that the general population has no awareness of what SAP is nor of its dominance in the world of corporate management software.  I fear that people hearing the interview might think the interviewee is some wild eyed academic who is fretting over some irrelevant, unknown company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute For New Economic Thinking (INET) has the interview Simon Head: Innovation And Its Potential To Damage Society. The benefits of innovation are seldom questioned. Virtually every single growth initiative formulated by governments around the world to deal with today&#8217;s challenging economic conditions invariably circles back to the need to promote innovation as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17660,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657\/revisions\/17660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}