Category: Environment
Guest Post: Response to Richard Tol on 'Green New Deal'
John Barry 21/05/2009
John Barry: Richard Tol, over at Irish Economy, has an ‘interesting’ take on one of the components of a Green New Deal for Ireland. Focusing on …
Guest post: Towards a Green New Deal
John Barry 14/05/2009
John Barry: Last summer the influential think and do tank, the new economics foundation, published what turned out to be a prescient report. Called A …
The Ryanair Model of Development?
James Wickham 05/05/2009
James Wickham: Ryanair is an Irish success story. Ryanair’s high profile CEO, Michael O’Leary, is one of the country’s home grown billionaires. …
Taking on anti-green economics
30/04/2009
Writing here on Tuesday, Oxfam UK's Duncan Green noted that "Climate change has so far taken a back seat and that is deeply worrying. The G20 largely …
Guest post by Duncan Green: Is the Crisis Deep Enough to Trigger the Changes We Need?
Duncan Green 28/04/2009
Duncan Green: The latest figures from the IMF, released last week, are shocking. The global economy is now in full recession, predicted to fall by …
Prosperity without growth?
16/04/2009
Ahead of the G20 summit in London, the UK's Sustainable Development Commission recently published Prosperity Without Growth? arguing that "the …
Return to Growth Paradigm in Petrochemical Economy not an Option
Peadar Kirby 22/02/2009
Peadar Kirby: The focus of public attention and debate on recession and cutbacks at the moment indicates the extreme poverty of public discourse in …
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James Stewart
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Rory Hearne
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Nat O'Connor
Nat O’Connor is a member of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences (IRiSS) and a …