Crisis? It’s baby-crunching time. We no longer have the luxury of attacking others’ prescriptions – those issued by the Government, employers’ spokespersons and stockbroker economists. The proverbial punter at the bar is impatient: ‘So what’s…
Monthly Archives For November 2008
Book Review: Muqtada by Patrick Cockburn
One of the secret weapons of the occupation forces in Iraq has been the sheer danger of reporting on the conflict. The occupiers themselves have attacked the local offices of Al-Jazeera, the broadcaster with the…
The Public Reaction of Sympathy and Outrage at the Killing of Shane Geoghan
The public reaction of profound sympathy and outrage at the killing of Shane Geoghegan, by a killer or killers involved in a bloody feud between drug-dealing gangs in Limerick, is totally justified. Shane Geoghegan was…
November 14th Evening: The Recession Diaries
Some on the Left are trying to put a brave face on the Irish Times poll today. ‘Consolidating’ support at 14 percent is one rationalisation. Another is that the Labour leader has the highest satisfaction…
Gavyn Davies: Deflation is now a more serious threat than inflation |
Gavyn Davies: Deflation is now a more serious threat than inflation | Yet another thoughtful piece which shows just how adrift mainstream political and economic thinking in Ireland is from the ideas being touted to…
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been Bill Ayers' account of his cameo role in the US elections just past. It tallies pretty accurately with Obama's.
ILR Podcast: Interview with Dr. Paul O’Mahony
For ILR’s first podcast, we interviewed the leading progressive criminologist Dr. Paul O’Mahony. The interview covered a range of topics including the way in which the popular media shapes public perceptions of – and political…
November 7th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Maybe I’m getting paranoid but I can’t help feeling that we’re being primed to blame the incoming Obama administration if our inflow of foreign investment starts drying up, resulting in massive dislocations in our economy. …
America the Liberal
America the Liberal John Judis argues that 2008 may mark an historic leftward realignment in America, akin to 1930 and 1896, that could pave the way for an enduring Democratic majority over the next several…
Dawn of the dead economists – Keynes, Marx and the search for alternatives
John Maynard Keynes once remarked that “practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”. Are we approaching a time when practical men…
December 11th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Did anyone catch it? Stephen Collins did but he didn’t give us the maths. When Minister Lenihan introduced the Finance Bill he made a small amendment in the new income levy, imposing an extra one percent on…
Today is the Future
I remember watching the race riots on television news – Watts, Harlem, Hough and Newark. I remember my first lesson from the Bible as taught me by my mother – a Christian fundamentalist daughter of…
Cometh the hour, cometh Gilmore
During the unkind years of the neo-liberal consensus, which were dominated by the free-market/small-government/low-tax/eat-what-you-kill/greed-is-good mentality that pretty well everyone now recognises to have been a failure, it was exceptionally difficult for the Labour party in…
Those Crazy Greeks!!
“I Will Just Finish This Drink, and then We Will Have the Riot!” I have been watch with bemused contempt the rubbish rioting of the idiot Greeks over the past few days on the television…
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- Notes for a Book on Money and the Irish State - The Marshall Aid Program April 2, 2016Ireland’s Economy: Radio Eireann talks on Ireland’s part in the Marshall Plan. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1949 [official/government publication] NLI: OPIE X 26.A Forward by the Taoiseach Mr. John A. Costello S.C., T.D. (pp.1-2) Since its inception European Economic Co-operation has done much towards restoring European economic solvency and has challenged the forces which have been […]Conor McCabe
- The Financial Crisis:What Have We Learnt? August 29, 2015I start teaching a level one (introduction level) module in UCD Monday Week on the Financial Crisis. As always, I’ll post what I can here to share it with activists and progressives. This is a short audio I’m putting up for the students to give them a sense of where the module is coming from. […]Conor McCabe
- Money in 35,000 Words or Less August 22, 2015I’ve been asked to write a short book on money. The manuscript is due in the end of April 2016. As with most things I do with political economy and education I’ll be posting stuff here as I go along. I just find it an interesting way of working through ideas, concepts and analysis. Anyway, […]Conor McCabe
- THE WRATH OF KANE: BANKING CRISES AND POLITICAL POWER January 30, 2015I’ll be writing more about this at the weekend but I think this is a good standalone clip from evidence to the banking inquiry given by Prof. Ed Kane on Wednesday 28 Jan 2015. He was asked by Deputy Pearse Doherty to elaborate on the statement below which was made in a paper that […]Conor McCabe