Wednesday, Mar 17th 2010
Paul Mason | Greece: “The PIGS Fight Back”
Paul Mason, Newsnight economics reporter, gives a low down of events on Wednesday.
The question of the day is: will Germany and maybe France step forward to guarantee Greece’s future loans, allowing the cost of borrowing to fall and greater certainty that it will roll-over the debts in a [...]
Europe prepares to help Greece out of crisis — EU Business News
EU leaders are under increasing pressure to lend support to cash-strapped Greece when they meet in Brussels Thursday, with attention increasingly on offering financial guarantees to soothe the markets.
On Wednesday, finance ministers from the European single currency area planned phone talks with European Central [...]
Socialist Project | Consolidating the Coup in Honduras?
A country of sharp inequality and class polarization, Honduras recently returned to the frontlines in the battle for Latin America’s soul. The terrain of struggle has shifted on multiple occasions over the last seven months, following the military coup against the democratically-elected President, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya. The battle [...]
As Kevin Doogan mentioned in a comment on the ILR post about his article in the New Humanist, he has written about whether or not globalization, technological change, and the new corporate economy has changed the nature of work itself in his book New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work. Using a substantial amount of empirical [...]
Rep. Dennis Kucinich v. Glenn Greenwald on the Supreme Court’s Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling on Corporate Money
A new poll has found nearly two-thirds of respondents oppose the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Citizens United to allow corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Glenn Greenwald offer [...]
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY LECTURE SERIES 2010
Prof James Wickham
Head of School of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Financial markets and social power - the new inequalities of turbo-capitalism
Wednesday 10 February 2010
7.00- 9.30 pm
Synge lecture theatre, Arts Building, TCD
A L L W E L C O M E
In the concluding chapter of his new book New Old World, Perry Anderson asks the question: what exactly is the EU for? What benefits are supposed to be result of this project of increasing political and economic integration?
Citing past notions, he refers to the initial ‘heroic phase of European integration’ that assured peace for Europe [...]
Kevin Doogan - Not all that is solid | New Humanist
Analysis of global foreign direct investment patterns also reveals two interesting and counter-intuitive trends. FDI expands during boom periods and contracts during recessions. To blame job losses on capital migration is questionable. Secondly the lion's share of overseas investment goes to the rich rather than [...]
Patrick Cockburn | The Case Against Tony Blair
The case against Tony Blair has revolved too much around his good faith and too little around his competence. The placards held up by protestors on Friday as he gave evidence should have read “sucker” and “dope” rather than “Bliar”.
Amateurs have a fluency denied to professionals because they [...]
Victor Grossman | Oskar Lafontaine and the Troubled German Left
While German politicians stared at the calendar, wondering nervously what the May 9th elections will bring in the biggest state, North Rhine-Westphalia, with its 18 million people, media attention suddenly switched to a personal drama within the party called Die Linke (The Left). A few [...]