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If it's not broken, what fixed it?
If you take a look at Daniel Finkelstein's latest post on his excellent blog today, you'll see that he's claiming that falling crime rates are due to the 'get tough' approach of Michael Howard, influenced by the zero -tolerance approach of NY Police Commissioner William Bratton and 'broken windows' theory. But I think Daniel's assertion is wrong.
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23rd July 2008
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Has the government just nationalised unemployment?
On the face of it, James Purnell's annoucement seems common sense; if you want benefits you should work for them. But in effect, doesn't that just mean that the government will just be employing people to do community work? (And is it therefore obligated to pay people minimum wage?)Why would someone feel any moral or social imperative to move off benefits if they are working for them? As is the fashion these days, I'm sure I've seen some relevant psychological research on incentives and...
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21st July 2008
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Changes afoot..
It is very exciting news that the writer and thinker Richard Reeves was appointed new Demos director yesterday.
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18th July 2008
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Podcast: Hello everybody...Clay Shirky at Demos
We had the pleasure of hosting Clay Shirky in the Demos event space this lunchtime. He was in conversation with Demos associate Paul Miller, talking around the ideas thrown up by his book Here Comes Everybody.
We recorded the event, and you can listen in here.
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Posted by Peter Bradwell
on 15th July 2008
in Demos Podcasts
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Clay Shirky, knife crime and the self policing society
Clay Shirky spoke at Demos today (get the podcast here). Unfazed by jet lag and our infamous coffee, Clay answered a flurry of questions including one I managed to sneak in on knife crime. Could social software, I asked, help stop the current spate of knife crimes in London? Before I’m accused of suggesting that Twitter may be the missing tool in the Government’s fight against knife crime, consider the subject of Clay’s new book Here Comes Everybody. In a nutshell it’s about what happens when people are given the tools to do things together.
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Posted by Charlie Edwards
on 15th July 2008
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Brazil: The Natural Knowledge-Economy
Last Tuesday we launched the most recent pamphlet in the Atlas of Ideas series - Brazil: the natural knowledge-economy - to a full house at the IET. If you couldn't make it, the clever chaps at the IET filmed the whole thing and its now online. You can watch...
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Posted by Kirsten Bound
on 14th July 2008
in The Atlas of Ideas
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Demos twitters
We're igniting our Twitter account.
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Posted by Peter Bradwell
on 10th July 2008
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Walkabout
I just got in the lift up to our office, only to read a notice saying ‘This lift does not serve the first floor’. Has our landlord been reading Nudge? Has everyone??
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Posted by Duncan O'Leary
on 10th July 2008
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The Turban Effect?
I posted an article in Comment is free yesterday, which you can read here. The article draws attention to a new experiment that claims to offer fresh evidence of Islamophobia, albeit with a twist: that our biases towards Muslims are in some instances unconscious. The author of the experiment attributes to biased popular and news media and has deemed his findings the Turban Effect.
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Posted by Jonathan Birdwell
on 9th July 2008
in From Threat to Opportunity
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Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky is speaking at Demos this coming Monday. Event details here.
If you haven't read his new book Here Comes Everybody then you should stick it on your list for summer reading. If you can't make it to the event we'll be podcasting Clay's presentation - you can see other presentations here and here.
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Posted by Charlie Edwards
on 9th July 2008
in Demos Website
