Friday, Jan 27th 2012
In its usual stuffy way the Irish Times editorial today trots out of the old nag of moral indignation, mounts it like a cavalry officer and proceeds to spout absolute garbage on the ethics of certain Wall Street banks.
What brought this on of course, is the indictment of Goldman Sachs for marketing as a good [...]
New book exposes dangers of carbon market ahead of Bolivia climate summit
Carbon Trading: How it works and why it fails provides a devastating critique of both the theory and practice of carbon trading, and exposes its disastrous track record since its adoption as part of the Kyoto Protocol. It shows how the European Union Emissions [...]
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Collini on the Unleashing Aspiration: the British governments report on Fair Access to the Professions, British Social Attitudes: The 26th Report & An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK: Report of the National Equality Panel .
The subjectivism of ‘aspiration’ is both its strength and its weakness: it speaks [...]
Jane Gray on Ireland After NAMA makes an important point -which I missed last week - when wondering why there has been so much bile in ‘public discourse ‘directed at public sector workers at a time when a tonne and a half of public money is being used to make up for the mistakes of [...]
The past few decades have seen a growing awareness among health professionals and policy makers of the role that social and economic factors play in determining good mental health. As the WHO Regional Committee for Europe noted:
Widening disparities in society or economic changes in individuals’ life courses seem to be of particular importance here. Whether [...]
Doug Henwood of Behind the News talks to Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, about his article
Looting Main Street: How the nation’s biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece.
The story of Jefferson County, and how politicians who had resisted fixing the county sewage system changed their mind [...]
An economy relying on consumer spending to drive a recovery is an economy that will be eventually be disappointed. Not that consumption cannot play a vital role. Indeed, businesses dependent on domestic demand need a robust level of spending to survive and expand, invest and employ. But it must always be placed in context. For [...]
French Politics: Bourdieu Resurrected
In advance of a government push toward an ultimate solution of the retirement conundrum, a group of intellectuals, trade union leaders, and political leaders from the left of the Left and the left wing of the Socialist Party have launched a petition calling for a "broad mobilization of citizens" to stop what [...]
There’s a problem with the way reports are covered in our media. Take the recent ESRI Spring Quarterly Commentary, for example. The demands on journalists to cover a statistically-dense 85 page report for the next news bulletin or the next day’s paper means that they can’t possibly work their way through it to get a [...]
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