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Tony Curzon Price was Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy from 2007 to 2012, where he is now contributing editor and technical director. He blogs at tony.curzon.com

Articles by Tony Curzon Price

All power to the doctors' consortia!

Tony Curzon Price 8 April 2011
Playing around with debates, again. This time on the NHS reforms.

District heating - should we follow Denmark's lead

Tony Curzon Price 5 April 2011
Another debate I worked on, extracted from the Department of Energy and Climate Change's public consultation on Pathways to 2050. I love the idea of district heating – which seems such a natural adjunct to local community control compared to other systems – but can it really be justified independently of this benefit. Maybe ...

Tax dodgers should be made to pay

Tony Curzon Price 5 April 2011
Still playing around with lay-outs for debates

Tax dodging versus flat-taxers. The case laid out

Tony Curzon Price 25 March 2011
Playing with the very nice Wrangl.comto lay out the issues

Did the Internet matter in Tunisia and Egypt?

Nabila Ramdani and Tony Curzon Price 18 February 2011
An audio interview in which Nabila Ramdani describes the role of the social networks in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions – to what extent are Morozov's and Gladwell's arguments proved wrong by events?

The living history of Arab revolutions

Eugene Rogan and Tony Curzon Price 18 February 2011
A filmed interview of Professor Eugene Rogan; the conversation ranges from the echoes of nineteenth century constitutionalism in the Tunisian and Egyptian movements today, to other moments of Egyptian empowerment – 1919, the years after 1952 – through the challenges ahead for Egypt and the credibility challenges that the West faces given a history of false promises in the region

Cupid's freedom: how the web sharpens the democratic revolution

Tony Curzon Price 31 January 2011
Franzen's "Freedom" holds the key to what I think is wrong with Morozov's cyber-pessimism: it underestimates the problem of common knowledge and the web's contribution to its creation. That is why Wikileaks, Facebook and the blogosphere have been important to events in North Africa

Consumption tax increases discourage consumerism; work tax increases discourage work. Shouldn't we welcome the shift to VAT?

Tony Curzon Price 4 January 2011
VAT is not progressive, as claimed by UK Chancellor George Osborne in his defence of the tax rise. But it is a tax on something we should be doing less of. So shouldn't we welcome it?

Denis Dutton and Arts and Letters Daily: the authority of the aggregator and the shift in power from information to meaning

Tony Curzon Price 1 January 2011
Denis Dutton, founder and editor of Arts and Letters Daily, has died. His daily selection of reading material was a remarkable work in itself and has much to teach web and media watchers about where true value is created online

Fellow Britons! Remember: the banks still owe their survival to us. Let's use that power well

Tony Curzon Price 19 December 2010
Without massive ongoing public support the banks will fail. We should take the consequences seriously, they extend much further than bonuses

Ha-Joon Chang in conversation with Tony Curzon Price on "23 Things they don't tell you about capitalism", students, strikes and legitimacy as a public good

Tony Curzon Price and Ha-Joon Chang 18 December 2010
A wide-ranging conversation recorded in Cambridge, England, on November 29th 2010. Ha-Joon Chang discusses students, strikes, economic ideologies, what to do with finance, with power, nations, global governance and more

Student fees/loans good for the poorest graduates

Tony Curzon Price 13 December 2010
The distributional aspects of the UK government's loans/fees package looks attractive

US power, wikileaks, student protest, Christopher Hitchens and openDemocracy under attack: moral authority, or authoritarianism?

Tony Curzon Price 13 December 2010
Authors, authority and authoritarianism. A turbulent week raises the question of truth and legitimacy

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