The Ideology of Mr. House | Fallout: New Vegas

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In which I talk about a 10 year old game using things I vaguely remember from my undergrad modules on human development! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro Gag 0:29 - Introduction 5:20 - The Issue With the NCR 15:02 - Enter Mr. House 19:41 - The Ideology of Mr. House 31:13 - Progress for who, though? 36:00 - Old World Blues 41:10 - The Apocalypse (Or, How To Save Democracy) 47:05 - Endcards References: CATO Human Freedom Index: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-index-files/human-freedom-index-2019.pdf Epistemology of Resistance: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199929023.001.0001 Prison Notebooks: https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/index.htm Modernism and Totalitarianism: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F9781137284372 The 'Developmental State' and Economic Development: https://www.e-ir.info/pdf/488 Systemic Vulnerability: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818305050113 Creating Malaysia: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1080/03086530008583091 Politics & Governance in Singapore: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7cpNpwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Management of Success (Singapore): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tsD11_gqgusC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Freedom House Report: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/921681/download Singapore's Soft Repression: https://thediplomat.com/2015/02/soft-repression-the-struggle-for-democracy-in-singapore/ Singapore RSF: https://rsf.org/en/singapore Our World In Data: https://ourworldindata.org/country/singapore Challenging the Dogma of Free Trade: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/arts/challenging-the-dogmas-of-free-trade.html Corruption Perception Index: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2019/index/nzl Challenge to Liberal Democracy: https://www.rse.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Liberal-Democracy-and-the-Challenge-of-Authoritarian-Capitalism-1.pdf Detainment of Uighurs: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/china/report-china/ HRW: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/singapore Marxist Critique of Developmental State: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12024 Economics for the Many: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3031-economics-for-the-many TL Green: https://web.archive.org/web/20050827091329/http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/green/obligation.pdf Accumulation of Capital: https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/ Advnacing Human Development: http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/advancing-human-development-theory-and-practice Podcast Bean: https://praxiscast.podbean.com/e/episode-45-come-play-my-lord-ft-josh-sawyer/ Spatial Fix: https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/2251/file/gr2_01_Ess02.pdf US Kleptocracy: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/3/21100092/us-trump-kleptocracy-corruption-tax-havens Wider Reading: Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (2014) - Peter Dickens Spaces of Global Capital (2019) - David Harvey Towards a Democratic Developmental State (2006) - Gordon White (https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/286044025.pdf)