Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Toxic Textbooks
A movement to encourage schools and universities to use economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world.
Toxic textbooks helped cause the economic meltdown
The current economic meltdown is not the result of natural causes or human conspiracy, but because society at all levels became infected with false beliefs regarding the nature of economic reality. [...]
Have My Say | Three Bags Full: Voting Yes for Lisbon
Hugh Green on why those who voted no in the last Lisbon referendum should vote yes this time. Not because they have changed their mind, but rather because the choice provided is a false choice. At the moment the choice is vote yes if you [...]
And This Does Not Include My Duke of Edinburgh Award!!
Si, is the Prince Phillips of England, spouse of the Queen but not a king himself, just a sort of male First Lady, but with more balls than Laura the Bush and Michelle the Obama, although not Hillary the Clinton. Indeed, some people are say that [...]
In a press release today, IPRT welcomed the Government announcement that it is to reconsider the proposed building of what would have been the largest prison in the State, and one of the largest prisons in Europe, at Thornton Hall. We believe that the decision to rethink Thornton Hall is an opportunity to conduct a [...]
Be under no illusion - the economic debate is now morphing from an obsession with debts and deficits into a full-blown assault on the public realm that has more in common with Thatcherism than it does with mere fiscal prudence. For some time, the more extreme fringes of the Irish Right have been steadily moving [...]
So the government has dumped Bernard McNamara and the Leargas consortium because they were no longer affordable just as Bernard McNamara dumped the government when it appeared that the Regeneration Projects wouldn’t be the cash cow that McNamara had planned. In both cases the recent increase in the cost of financing the projects were cited. [...]
Charlie Brooker on the BNP and their political broadcast | Comment is free | The Guardian
The other day, the BNP had a political broadcast on the box. I wasn't in my beloved homeland at the time, but I heard about it, via internet chuckles of derision. Fellow geeky types tweeting about the poor production values. [...]
The ESRI’s recent ‘Recovery Scenarios for Ireland’ offers us a glimpse of the ‘nirvana of the return to normal’ - a set of projections that could see the economy, if not flying high, then at least gliding well above ground level within a couple of years. It assumes that ‘if-only-we-can-get-through-this-spot-of-bother’ we can resume high levels [...]
TASC which gets a mention around here regularly enough are now providing a number of online tools that aim to increase political participation in the EU elections by helping voters get the information they need before they vote on June 5th.
The online tools, Candidate Watch (candidatewatch.ie) and Vote Match (votematch.eu) are available on dedicated sites, [...]
infinite thØught | nostalgia, blogs, critique
IT on the relationship between print media and blogging. The whole post provides plenty of food for thought, but this paragraph makes an important point worth quoting:
“Print media suffers from a lack of space; certainly it is selective, but it is also exclusive - all the stories that don’t get [...]
