Comments on: Guardians, traders, and public policy/2011/06/26/guardians-traders-and-public-policy/Andrew Curry's blog on futures, trends, emerging issues and scenariosMon, 19 Feb 2024 13:12:53 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: The future of cities and the future of work – the next wave/2011/06/26/guardians-traders-and-public-policy/#comment-61289Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:12:53 +0000/?p=686#comment-61289[…] the market: the needs of one don’t align well with the incentives of the other. Things that should be done by ‘guardians’, in Jane Jacobs model, shouldn’t be put in the hands of ‘traders’ instead. In her book on work the sociologist […]

]]>By: Busy doing the wrong things – the next wave/2011/06/26/guardians-traders-and-public-policy/#comment-61275Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:01:57 +0000/?p=686#comment-61275[…] blogged about the book here, and should nod towards Victoria Ward, who introduced me to […]

]]>By: The future of cities and the future of work - Resilience/2011/06/26/guardians-traders-and-public-policy/#comment-57252Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:22:17 +0000/?p=686#comment-57252[…] from the market: the needs of one don’t align well with the incentives of the other. Things that should be done by ‘guardians’, in Jane Jacobs model, shouldn’t be put in the hands of ‘traders’ instead. In her book on work the sociologist […]

]]>By: Breaking Britain’s energy ‘market’ - Resilience/2011/06/26/guardians-traders-and-public-policy/#comment-53634Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:18:45 +0000/?p=686#comment-53634[…] The demands of security and long-term benefits require different forms of management. This is the distinction that Jane Jacobs makes in her book Systems of Survival between Guardians and Traders. (I have written about this before.) […]

]]>By: Breaking Britain’s energy ‘market’ – the next wave/2011/06/26/guardians-traders-and-public-policy/#comment-53602Tue, 30 Aug 2022 07:01:11 +0000/?p=686#comment-53602[…] The demands of security and long-term benefits require different forms of management. This is the distinction that Jane Jacobs makes in her book Systems of Survival between Guardians and Traders. (I have written about this before.) […]

]]>By: Following football’s finances – Just Two Things/2011/06/26/guardians-traders-and-public-policy/#comment-39559Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:52:09 +0000/?p=686#comment-39559[…] there is a reason for this. JPMorgan are traders, and football fans are guardians. (This is Jane Jacobs’ distinction in her book Systems for […]

]]>By: Football: guardians and traders – the next wave/2011/06/26/guardians-traders-and-public-policy/#comment-39553Wed, 21 Apr 2021 07:05:25 +0000/?p=686#comment-39553[…] there is a reason for this. JPMorgan are traders, and football fans are guardians. This is Jane Jacobs’ distinction in her book Systems for […]

]]>By: Traders, guardians and big data | Make the Data Bigger - Adventures in evidence-based marketing/2011/06/26/guardians-traders-and-public-policy/#comment-4398Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:03:22 +0000/?p=686#comment-4398[…] grateful to Andrew Curry for introducing me to Jane Jacobs’ model of Traders and Guardians, from her book Systems of […]

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