Posted in Irish journalism, financialization, irish political economy, bank inquiry, Banks, Irish Economy, Irish History, Irish social history, Irish housing, Ireland on Jan 23rd, 2015 No Comments »
Shadows never go away.
Might be you don’t see them,
but they’re always clinging to your heels.” A Song of Ice and Fire
When I was a child in primary school my way of dealing with Irish class was to find a word in the question that matched a word in the text and hope for the […]
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Powerpoint and readings for lecture one of Global Finance, Money and Power.
Global Finance, Money and Power: Lecture One - The Nature of Money and Credit from Conor McCabe
Geoffrey Ingham (2008) 'Money' in Capitalism. Capbridge: Polity Press from Conor McCabe
David Graeber (2011) 'The […]
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Well, the summer starts here. My chart for a new module on global finance. hopefully I’ll have it filled out by the end of August. I’d be looking to do a variation of this for activists as well. As always, I’ll post stuff here as I go along and sure see what happens. The module […]
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“Financial sector developments, which are for the most part unrelated to the domestic economy, account for a significant portion of the rise in GNP. To the extent that these persist in contributing to growth in net factor income in the coming year, they would further support GNP growth unrelated to domestic consumption, investment or export […]
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Posted in financialization on Jan 16th, 2014 2 Comments »
I’m putting together a module on financialization and i’m going to post the readings for each section here as I go along. It’s still in draft mode but I think these articles/chapters here can be put down as core texts on the topic.
Foster @ Magdoff (2007) 'The Financialization of Capitalism' […]
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From the Financial Times, 6 January 2014.
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Small protest today outside the offices of Arthur Cox, Earlsfort Terrace, to highlight the financialization of the city and the role that law firms such as Arthur Cox play in this process.
This was part of the Right to Housing and the City campaign which will be launched across Europe tomorrow, with the Dublin event taking […]
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