Posts Tagged trust
The Challenges of Complexity
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 18th, 2012
Last night, I attended a dinner in Lafayette. A delightful man at my table turned out to be a retired environmental engineer, and during the conversation, the subject of fracking came up. I’ve had a good deal of trepidation about the practice, so I was surprised when he said that–done with a reasonable level of [...]
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Loss of Trust
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 9th, 2012
In 2009, I wrote a book titled Distrust, American Style in which I argued that a loss of trust in our social institutions–and especially in our government–has had significant negative consequences for our ability to function as a productive society. Things haven’t improved since 2009. If anything, our levels of distrust have continued to grow, [...]
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Who Do You Trust?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on March 3rd, 2012
In its business section this morning, the New York Times had a lengthy story about Angie’s List, the Indianapolis-based company that offers members access to reviews of service providers of various kinds. The reviews are provided by the members, and the article noted that–unlike sites like Yelp!–those reviews are not anonymous. While Angie’s list doesn’t [...]
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Who Can We Trust?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on November 29th, 2009
The Indianapolis Star has been advocating rather forcefully for laws to tighten restrictions on the lobbyists who exercise increasing power at the Statehouse. The Star argues that such restrictions are necessary if we are to restore a modicum of trust in our legislative body. They’re right. My most recent book—“Distrust, American Style”—was an inquiry into [...]
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Our Current Mess–a recent rant
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on April 18th, 2009
[The other night, I spoke to the Washington Township Democratic Club, and thought I'd post those remarks here.] When I labeled this talk “The Current Mess” it was because I hadn’t decided what to talk about, and I figured “mess” covered pretty much anything I might choose—locally, I might be talking about our Mayor. [...]
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