by Paul Hendler | 25 Jun 2017 | Finance, Free Debate, Insights, Political economy, Urban processes
When elites command us to “do as we say not as we do”. This is preposterous arrogance….. Public discourse contaminated by preposterous arrogance Social forces interpolate their members. This happens through people learning to mouth the views...
by Paul Hendler | 25 Jun 2017 | Finance, Grassroots struggle, Housing, Land processes, Political economy, Urban processes
Recently Helen Zille caused a storm. This was because she tweeted that colonialism wasn’t all that bad. In doing this she implied that it brought development to the backward parts. For this the ANC attacked her. Also her party, the DA, is having a disciplinary...
by Paul Hendler | 28 Apr 2017 | Business Strategy, e-Commerce, Insights, Political economy, SMME support, Tenders
To be or to question ? Should we question what we do? Or should we just get on with the job? And be grateful that we have work? I faced this question many times. Answering influenced how we branded INSITE. Our response was not either to be critical or to be practical....
by Paul Hendler | 19 Jan 2017 | Climate Science, Energy, Finance, Global Warming, Grassroots struggle, Insights
In 2007 I contributed to a piece for the Presidency on Oil-Climate-Finance. Simon Ratcliffe, Jeremy Wakeford and Jack Holiday made the major content inputs. We analysed the impact of Oil, Climate and Finance on SA’s political economy. We projected two scenarios...
