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  • How Uber contributed to the shift from regulatory state to evaluatory society

    How Uber contributed to the shift from regulatory state to evaluatory society1

    Uber bites again. Today, the venture-backed start-up launched its less controversial ride-sharing app UberX in Zagreb, Croatia. This post-socialist country has climbed on the bandwagon of the sharing economy after an already burdensome move to the market economy. The taxi sector’s reaction in Croatia is very indicative of the abhorrence by which vested interests ”welcomed” market liberalisation. More dramatically, the arrival of Uber threatens to exacerbate relations between the state-business nexus and citizens’ demands.

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  • Michel Foucault on refugees – an interview from 1979

    Michel Foucault on refugees – an interview from 19791

    ‘The refugee problem is a foreshadowing of the 21st century’s great migration.’

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  • Talking to my daughter about the economy (Book review)

    Talking to my daughter about the economy (Book review)0

    I expected a lot from Varoufakis’s economics for teenagers. I believe that basics of economics and entrepreneurship must be part of the high school curricula (possibly even of the last grades of the elementary school). Citizens who possess basic economic knowledge could more easily understand manipulations performed by politicians (when salaries and pensions are cut to finance party employment in the public sector); they would know that market prices depend on other people’s tastes and ability to pay, and not on the nature of the capitalist who produce them; or they would know that there is no such a thing as free meal – when the government gives you something for free, someone always had to pay for it.

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