{"id":2990,"date":"2009-05-18T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T08:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/lord-mandelson-at-google-zeitgeist-talks-about-the-crisis.html"},"modified":"2009-05-18T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T08:57:28","slug":"lord-mandelson-at-google-zeitgeist-talks-about-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2990","title":{"rendered":"Lord Mandelson at Google Zeitgeist talks about the crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Google Zeitgeist I hear Lord Mandelson say two things about the quality of government that make sense.  One is that the better a government in a country the more tolerant people are of globalization.  The second one is that the more demanding consumers of a country are the better they are at choosing politicians.<br \/>\nStill listening to the UK Secretary of State for Business I get a sense that top politicians are as much witnesses of this global crisis as top people in business.  The only &#8220;real&#8221; actor in these times is the crisis itself.  Everyone else watches the data and tries to cope.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2990\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Google Zeitgeist I hear Lord Mandelson say two things about the quality of government that make sense. One is that the better a government in a country the more tolerant people are of globalization. The second one is that the more demanding consumers of a country are the better they are at choosing politicians. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}