Dr. Josh Patel (he/him)
@joshpatel.bsky.social
Researcher, Edge Foundation
https://joshsdpatel.wixsite.com/joshpatel
Fortcoming monograph with SRHE/Routledge 'Universities and the Purpose of Higher Education: Expansion and Development in Post-War Britain'
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https://joshsdpatel.wixsite.com/joshpatel
Fortcoming monograph with SRHE/Routledge 'Universities and the Purpose of Higher Education: Expansion and Development in Post-War Britain'
Swimmer & coach🏊🏽♂️🦦
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‘Baroness Smith, the universities minister, said many institutions were failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from the government.’
Which institutions are these? We’ve seen absolute carnage in redundancies across the sector, so I’m curious which she is thinking of
Which institutions are these? We’ve seen absolute carnage in redundancies across the sector, so I’m curious which she is thinking of
May 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
‘Baroness Smith, the universities minister, said many institutions were failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from the government.’
Which institutions are these? We’ve seen absolute carnage in redundancies across the sector, so I’m curious which she is thinking of
Which institutions are these? We’ve seen absolute carnage in redundancies across the sector, so I’m curious which she is thinking of
Also does anyone know where Augar's doctorate in history (Wikipedia/various bios claims he has) was awarded from?
May 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Also does anyone know where Augar's doctorate in history (Wikipedia/various bios claims he has) was awarded from?
Maybe this shows a way forward: restore faith in universal human potential and collaborative productivity. The state as investor, the obligation to deliver on that investment, collective freedoms, and better metrics of what value means. ??? 🤷🏽♂️ would recommend tho big thumbs up from me
May 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Maybe this shows a way forward: restore faith in universal human potential and collaborative productivity. The state as investor, the obligation to deliver on that investment, collective freedoms, and better metrics of what value means. ??? 🤷🏽♂️ would recommend tho big thumbs up from me
Most relevant to my work: these are Hayek’s bastards. The gulf between them and 'eu-neoliberals' (ugh) like Lionel Robbins is huge. Never really known what to make of Robbins’ phrasing of this between ‘Nazi or a Brahmin’ and I left it out post-thesis, but clear distinction; he wouldn’t suffer them.
![From my thesis, 'Imagining the Role of the Student in Society: ideas of British higher education policy and pedagogy, 1957-1972', 71.
Robbins also permitted himself what he recognised was an unscientific but egalitarian assumption in the name of fairness which permitted him to advocate the expansion of ‘pastoral power’. There was, he recognised, no way to scientifically prove that utility or satisfaction obtained by one individual from any given resource was of equal satisfaction to another individual. In an example he would frequently deploy, if members of another ‘civilisation’ told ‘us […] that members of his caste were capable of experiencing ten times as much satisfaction from given incomes as members of an inferior caste, we could not refute him […] in any objective sense’. He clarified elsewhere: ‘A Nazi or a Brahmin will choose one method of counting, a western liberal another’. But Robbins permitted the assumption on the grounds of moral necessity that the good society should assume that all individuals did possess equal faculties for the realisation of satisfaction.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yozy2cwxiw7pqxoxxzs73oas/bafkreibbjjnmu5nu3xanjonvssvo6iplvbbk5duot32lxhapqkqsyc4jey@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Most relevant to my work: these are Hayek’s bastards. The gulf between them and 'eu-neoliberals' (ugh) like Lionel Robbins is huge. Never really known what to make of Robbins’ phrasing of this between ‘Nazi or a Brahmin’ and I left it out post-thesis, but clear distinction; he wouldn’t suffer them.
Neoliberal is probably an unhelpful category for alt-right; QS invents 'ethno-economy' (10-11). But what do we do? I wasn't sure: this is an anti-capitalist struggle, but why has this ethno-economy become so attractive for the disenfranchised?
May 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Neoliberal is probably an unhelpful category for alt-right; QS invents 'ethno-economy' (10-11). But what do we do? I wasn't sure: this is an anti-capitalist struggle, but why has this ethno-economy become so attractive for the disenfranchised?
Wildly this explanation brings me some reassurance?? From this wave of cruelty being entirely incomprehensible there is now a route towards, not necessarily empathising with a good nazi, than at least dialogue. A lot of the scientism stuff feels like angry noise looking for epistemic certainty.
May 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Wildly this explanation brings me some reassurance?? From this wave of cruelty being entirely incomprehensible there is now a route towards, not necessarily empathising with a good nazi, than at least dialogue. A lot of the scientism stuff feels like angry noise looking for epistemic certainty.
3) Redistribution/ justice a smokescreen: doomed mission to involve nonwhite-migrant (and gender/trans issues? mentioned but not developed) populations into a society they are intrinsically unable to contribute to, damming the ethno-elect. Interesting relationship in Britain with declinism (109).
May 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
3) Redistribution/ justice a smokescreen: doomed mission to involve nonwhite-migrant (and gender/trans issues? mentioned but not developed) populations into a society they are intrinsically unable to contribute to, damming the ethno-elect. Interesting relationship in Britain with declinism (109).
2) The welfare state is recast as an elite tool: a mechanism to purchase votes using taxpayer money under the guise of redistribution (a kind of ‘folk version of Public Choice theory’, 136). Green politics as the post-1989 evolution of the reds (75).
May 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
2) The welfare state is recast as an elite tool: a mechanism to purchase votes using taxpayer money under the guise of redistribution (a kind of ‘folk version of Public Choice theory’, 136). Green politics as the post-1989 evolution of the reds (75).
1) At its core: the new fascism sustains a key faith in the unequal distribution of faculties and fitness to participate in productive society. Cultural arguments are the softest expression; racial arguments the most explicit.
May 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
1) At its core: the new fascism sustains a key faith in the unequal distribution of faculties and fitness to participate in productive society. Cultural arguments are the softest expression; racial arguments the most explicit.