Thinking Allowed Discusses Social Capital and Class Two very interesting Thinking Allowed recent episodes/podcasts on employment (in the media particularly), internships, class and social capital. Jobs for the Boys?’ Laurie Taylor talks to Professor Irena…
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The Disappointment of Unemployment Blackspots
When the unemployment figures were released yesterday, showing the highest levels since 1993, Glas Securities wrote a note that described the situation as ‘disappointing’. Well, that’s a word for it. I could think of other, more…
The ESRI Paper – Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Well, that was peculiar. An ESRI working paper that estimated the cost of going to work was published made the top story on RTE Six One news and then was withdrawn only a few minutes after…
Let Us Not Worry Our Little Heads
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton is setting a target of 100,000 net new jobs by 2016 on the eve of the Government’s launch of the Action Plan on Jobs. Does this mean…
Chasing the Goose in a Dark Landscape
We’re into the great expectations-management game again. It happens once a year, just prior to the budget. ‘Proposals’ are leaked or rumoured. The media – colluding in this annual exercise – chase around for stories. …
Foreign Industrial Employment in Ireland, 1983-2006
I spent last week going through the Census of Industrial Production reports, 1983 to 2006, in order to find out just how many jobs in Ireland are provided directly by foreign investment. This graph is…
Intern Boom Just Gets Boomier – Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy
Book review: Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy by Ross Perlin Not since Monica Lewinsky has the intern received as much attention as in recent months. Since…
Brutonising Sunday
A rainy Sunday morning; it brings many thoughts – of outdoor activities cancelled, indoor DIY projects advanced, no football and letting Garibaldy go through the Sunday Independent so that we don’t have to suffer that…
The Minister’s Cynical Sunday Move
Michael Taft was on Primetime tonight talking about the JLC proposals. You can see a recording of the program here. The proposal by the Minister for Enterprise, Richard Bruton – as mooted in the Irish…
We are Not Apples
The Restaurant Association of Ireland and Ibec won’t like it. Fine Gael certainly won’t like it. The army of commentators armed only with superficial and out-of-date analysis won’t like it. But the report on the…
Taking A Lot with One Hand, Giving Crumbs with the Other
At the heart of the Government’s emerging policy lies a profound dislocation and contradiction. Its Jobs Initiative is intended to promote consumer spending – a valid enough goal. Consumer spending has collapsed (by 10 percent)…
More Economic Nonsense from the Kindergarten Playground
On the eve of the Government’s job initiative Fianna Fail’s Michael Martin put it starkly: ‘Government’s don’t create jobs.’ This is straight from the kindergarten school of economics. Governments create jobs all the time. Let’s…
Leaving it to Business
When publishing its submission to the Government in anticipation of the Jobs Initiative, IBEC’s Danny McCoy stated: ‘Business will provide the job opportunities that the country so desperately needs, but Government must ensure the conditions…
Industrial Employment and the Celtic Tiger Years
Kevin Doogan in his excellent book, New Capitalism? correctly points out that employment is the achilles heel of right-wing economic analysis. You can’t model jobs – either they are there or they are not. If…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- AL JAZEERA AND THE DOUBLE-IRISH June 17, 2013Explaining the Double-Irish with a map, some coins and Al Jazeera.. […]Conor McCabe
- HIPSTER IFSC May 22, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
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