Posted in Economy on May 20th, 2010 1 Comment »
Simon Johnson is a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and considering that organization’s history of imposing austerity measures for the support it provides and condemning ‘emerging’ countries to decades of economic misery in order to support the banks in the developed world that got them into the mess in the first place […]
Posted in Marxism, Economy on May 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Lecture given by Harvey last month at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
Posted in Marxism, Marx, Economy on May 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
Second video in Brendan Cooney’s series on Marx’s Law of Value. Brendan’s blog is here, kapitalism101. The text of the video is here.
Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism, Economy, Irish Economy on May 3rd, 2010 3 Comments »
For more crystal quotes and masterful insights from Dan O’Brien, check out here.
Posted in Marxism, Economy on May 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
This is the first in a series of ten videos on the law of value, all made by Brendan Cooney of Kapitalism101.
Posted in Industrial Relations, Economy on Apr 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Posted in Industrial Relations, idiotic, Economy on Apr 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Words fail me.
Two days after this, after having ‘negotiated’ a deal which hands the government pretty much everything it wants in terms of lacerations to the public sector and workers, ICTU publishes a bulletin telling us that the government is shifting the burden onto the unemployed, the working poor, the low-paid and the public service, […]
Posted in Economy, dublin on Mar 28th, 2010 4 Comments »
Posted in Economy, books on Mar 8th, 2010 8 Comments »
The title of New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work is slightly misleading: the book’s focus is not so much the transformation of work in recent years, but rather the distance between the discussion of work by academics, journalists, and politicians, and the material reality of work in the 21st century.
The nature of work is changing, […]
Posted in Economy, Irish Society, Irish Economy on Mar 8th, 2010 1 Comment »
[An open letter to the Government: Signatories are listed below]
THE GOVERNMENT’S economic strategy is failing. The Irish recession has been deeper and longer than almost any other in the industrialised world.
Consumer spending has collapsed while at the same time unemployment and emigration have soared. Crucially, investment has plummeted off the chart. Not only have Government […]