Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012
Raytheon to close its plant in Derry | The Irish Times
THE US defence software company Raytheon confirmed yesterday that it is to close its plant at Springtown in Derry following several years of anti-war protests inside and outside its premises.
A representative for the Derry Anti-War Coalition, which organised the protests claiming the Derry plant was [...]
Europe’s OK; the euro isn’t - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Paul Krugman on why the Euro was a bad idea:
Europe lacks both the centralized fiscal system and the high labor mobility. (Yes, some workers move, but not nearly on the US scale).
To be sure, America has at least minor-league versions of the same problems: we [...]
The Theory Strikes Back | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion
P.O'Neill quotes FT's Martin Wolf on that bad Euro idea and the trouble for Ireland (and other less powerful EU economies):
But instead of belaboring this point, take a look at another superb Martin Wolf column in the FT and his bracing conclusion [...]
New Statesman | David Blanchflower | Hold on tight, it’s the double-dip
But why has the UK labour market outperformed the US, where unemployment has risen to over 10 per cent? Wages are not more flexible in the UK and the shock has been greater over here, because of the relatively large size of the financial [...]
Reviving Keynesianism: a Critique | Professor Richard D. Wolff
It is urgent in the current capitalist crisis to recognize the contributions of other interpretations of Marxism that do not ally with Keynesianism in their exclusive focus on the macro-level of the economy. Such Marxists go well beyond state regulation, controls, and ownership of capitalist enterprises, beyond [...]
The proper meaning of class, as it is used in an analysis of political economy and sociology internationally, is not much discussed in Ireland either in academia or more broadly, despite the overriding fact that so much of how the economic crisis has played out and how the government here has chosen to deal with [...]
Gilbert Achcar: Why Holocaust Denial Is on the Rise in the Arab World | Mediapart Magazine
An interview with Gilbert Achcar about his soon to be published book Arabs and the Holocaust. ILR interviewed Professor Achcar in January 09, during the conflict in Gaza. In this most recent interview he explains that anti-semitism is not implicit [...]
Anne Enright | Ireland’s Recession
From the most recent London Review of Books, Irish novelist Anne Enright provides a sort of diary of Ireland’s recession.
Telling the truth was, in the circumstances, not just boring, it was also unlucky, hexed, taboo. It might even be unclean. Careless talk costs jobs. If the bubble burst it would be [...]
Turbulence 5: Left-wing Political Magazine | Editorial: And Now For Something Completely Different?
Issue 5 of Turbulance, a British Left-wing magazine provides plenty of interesting articles on the various crisis' across a range of issues:
"Until recently, anyone who suggested nationalising the banks would have been derided as a ‘quack’ and a ‘crank’, as lacking the most [...]
Böhm/Dabhi | Upsetting the Offset | mayflybooks.org
Something for the Xmas stocking, I seriously doubt, unless you take the contrary notion of giving it to the aspiring carbon-neutral person in your life with an energy sponge e-reader. Upsetting the Offset is available as an e-book. Still post-Copenhagen 09 it is worth reading.
“Upsetting the Offset engages critically [...]
