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Thursday, May 24th 2012


Articles Covering Financial Crisis

Dawn of the dead economists - Keynes, Marx and the search for alternatives

John Maynard Keynes once remarked that “practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”. Are we approaching a time when practical men (and women) will have to make a conscious choice between the philosophies of two long-dead economists: Keynes himself and Karl [...]

The Financial Crisis and the Need for Systemic Change

An article by Ed Walsh of Irish Socialist Network • October 13th 2008

When middle-of-the-road commentators are beginning to sound like blood-thirsty Jacobins, you know something extraordinary is going on. The global financial crisis has driven the implacably centrist Simon Jenkins of the Guardian to pen articles like this:

“If the mistakes that have collapsed the world’s financial markets had been made by statesmen and had led to war, [...]

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Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

from The History Press

Now Available as an e-Book.

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