CONSTANTIN GURDGIEV, HYPOCRITE
Sep 27th, 2012 by Conor McCabe
Almost given up trying to explain how much this guy is a right-wing extremist but somehow he seems to have convinced people that he’s on their side. He may pat you on the back at the rallies, but inside he’s fucking laughing at you. Anyway, all of this from Constantin Gurdgiev, 19 December 2009, writing in Business and Finance so, you know, his audience aint exactly Argos and Lidl.
- government deficit to be cut by €10 billion in 2010 alone
- The solution to long-term unemployment is to cut welfare, thus forcing people back into the jobs market.
- those on welfare receive payments equivalent to 70 per cent of the average industrial wage.
- Airport levies and charges must be slashed to stimulate travel and alleviate pressure on our middle classes.
- PRSI to be slashed ‘completes the picture.’
In the final quote below, from October 2009, Gurdgiev is calling for the fiscal contraction ‘pain’ that we’re now going through - and which he’s now fucking opposing.
Not only an extremist but a hypocrite as well.
Utterly charming.
Don’t give up ….. some more of CG’s inner thoughts … CG forecasts in 2006 that it would be the ’socialists’ would wreck the celtic tiger http://issuu.com/stockholmnetwork/docs/sotu2008/30?mode=a_p pp 28-29
and I don’t think he ever was a fan of people on welfare http://www.lrinka.lt/n/index.php/papers_presentations/irish_experience_in_tax_competitiveness_did_fiscal_policy_follow_the_markets_or_vice_versa/2784 he had some radical ideas about outlawing trade unions too
This guy was a darling media a couple of years a couple of years ago when he seemed to have the answer to all of our problems,but he seems to have gone to ground recently. Is it only since he went into business with a certain Mr Ganley?
You really have to think twice about all of these opinionated experts who would have you believe they have your interests at heart.
Thank you for opening my eyes over the recent past.
p.s forgot to mention about the guys at the Cato Institute that are friends with our CG ” But, as a friend of mine from Ireland explains, there’s no way to kick the can down the road. Here’s some of what Constantin Gurdgiev wrote for Canada’s Globe and Mail”
http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/europes-dismal-outlook/ Hhhhhmmm the plot thickens !!!!!
“DR. CONSTANTIN GURDGIEV, EDITOR, BUSINESS & FINANCE
Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev is the Editor of Business & Finance magazine, Ireland¹s number one business publication, is a Dean of Finance with CBSM, and a Research Fellow with Trinity College, Dublin. He also is a Founder and an Academic Director of the Open Republic Institute - Ireland’s only independent economic and social policy think-tank.
Constantin is an Honorary Fellow of the Copenhagen Institute, Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Council, Member of the Academy of Political Science, the American Economic Association, the American Finance Association, Member of the Editorial Board of five international academic journals and a Member of the Executive Panel of the McKinsey&Co. He holds PhD in Macroeconomics and Finance from Trinity College, Dublin, MA in Economics from Johns Hopkins University (USA) and MA in Pure Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Gurdgiev¹s academic research focuses on theoretical models of habit formation, taxation and international finance. His contributions to academic literature range from analysis of international debt markets to financial economics and theoretical macroeconomics. He is currently working on academic books in the areas of international debt and development, finance and economics of the property rights.
Prior to joining College of Business Management (CBSM) he taught economics, finance and mathematics at University College, Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Johns Hopkins University (USA). Between 1990 and 1998, he served as a strategy director with the West-East Global Trade Co, Ltd in Los Angeles, CA.
Dr. Gurdgiev frequently contributes to economic and social policy debate in Ireland and Europe. His work on European policies is published by international think-tanks, including the Policy Institute, the Institute for International Integration Studies, CATO Institute, Centre for New Europe, Copenhagen Institute, CEPOS, Open Europe, and the Stockholm Network. He currently edits Ireland’s only independent policy analysis quarterly, the Open Republic magazine.
He is the recipient of the World Medal of Freedom, 2006 and Man of the Year, 2005 awards from the American Biographical Institute. In 1998-2000, Dr Gurdgiev was awarded a Millennium Scholarship Award from the University of Chicago. In 2000-2004 he was the holder of the Whatley Award from the Trinity College, Dublin
Constantin Gurdgiev
Over the last ten years Gurdgiev has been hauled out at every turn to justify privatisation and tax cuts.
The Open Republic Institute is a member of the Economic Freedom Network established by the Fraser Institute. The Canadian Institute, in collaboration with its worldwide affiliates, annually updates the Economic Freedom of the World Index. The latest report for 2005 is the 9th edition and rates 127 countries for the right-wing, free market, economic freedom concept. Hong Kong achieves the highest rating and Ireland finishes in eighth place. The Open Republic Institute, based on Shelbourne Road in Dublin 4, provides the Index’s Irish research data. Its Directors are Paul MacDonnell, Constantin Gurdgiev and Moore McDowell.”
“World Medal of Freedom” “Man of the Year”
scam… oops!
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I was looking for an article he wrote on regime change in the Ukraine, but it is now missing from the Open Republic site.
The political tendency that wants mortgage write off for the middle classes (and that talks up burning bondholder debt) alongside wage, benefit and service cuts, is a populist right wing tendency.