Below is Hugh Green’s penultimate post on The Punishment of Sloth. Here’s the final one. We look forward to more words and translations from him where ever, and how ever they may appear. Many thanks…
Monthly Archives For July 2011
Joining the dots – bondholders & public spending cuts
This piece was written by Alison Spillane and Adam Larragy and appeared originally on Politico.ie today. Today, EBS will pay €42,305,476 to senior unsecured bondholders – most probably large financial institutions. These bonds, one €40,000,000…
Diary of an Escape – Antonio Negri
Book Review:Diary of an Escape – Antonio Negri (Polity Press, 2010) “The recent days have shown the enormous gap that exists between our capacity to produce truth and the court’s inert expression of its unbelievable…
Serge Halimi | Europe’s wakeup call
Serge Halimi in Le Monde Diplomatique | Europe’s wakeup call The economic, and democratic, crisis in Europe raises questions. Why were policies that were bound to fail adopted and applied with exceptional ferocity in Ireland,…
My Resignation from the Labour Party
It is time to draw a line under my 30 year membership of the Labour Party. It is past time actually, as I have not been active at branch or constituency level for the past…
Emerging markets warn IMF over fresh Greek loan plan
Emerging markets warn IMF over fresh Greek loan plan Michael Burke points to this FT article, and argues “As the BRIC representatives say, the cuts are too harsh and the losses for bondholders too small….
Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance | Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin
Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance | Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin In a Comment is Free post in the Guardian Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin explore the rhetoric being generated since Anders Behring…
Questions that should be put to the Minister | Michael Taft
Questions that should be put to the Minister | Michael Taft Michael Taft on progressive-economy.ie has some questions that Phil Hogan should answer on the universal 100 euro a year household charge, which the minister…
The European Upside Down World: Why the nth European agreement is a step back
How to judge the nth European agreement ”to save Greece” stipulated on Thursday 21st July? The financial markets have already provided their verdict: on Friday 22 the spread between the Italian ten-years Treasury Bonds and the…
Shell to Sea Day of Action Against Shell Commencing Work on the Corrib Site Friday 29th July
Shell to Sea have called a Day of Action for Friday 29th July to protest against Shell commencing work on the Corrib site. Dublin Shell to Sea have organised a bus to Mayo, leaving Dublin at 6PM…
Jim Stanford | Out of Equilibrium
Jim Stanford | Out of Equilibrium Canadian Auto Workers [union] Economist Jim Stanford offers his take on the CETA negotiations in this video presentation called Out of Equilibrium: The Impact of Canada-European Union Free Trade…
International Economic Consequences of the Greek Debt Bailout
The Greek debt crisis is both a significant economic event and a foreign policy success for Germany. It has, for the present, shifted the economic balance of power in Europe, and to some extent more widely,…
The Workers Party’s Response to HM Treasury document, “Rebalancing the Northern Ireland Economy”
Introduction In late March 2011 the UK Treasury published a consultation document on rebalancing the Northern Ireland Economy. What follows is the Workers’ Party response to that document and its implications. It is our contention…
What to Do With the Windfall?
What a government does with an unexpected windfall says as much about its economic priorities as what it does when faced with a cash shortage. Whether the interest rate cut was the result of the…
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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