Posts by Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneyman
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a President of the Statistical and Social Enquiry Society of Ireland, former member of the Economic Committee of the ETUC, a member of the National Competitiveness Council of Ireland, the National Statistics Board, the ESB, TUAC, (advisor to OECD) and several other bodies. He has written three books on the Irish economy and two on public enterprise, including The Celtic Tiger; Ireland’s Economic Miracle Explained and Selling Out: Privatisation in Ireland, chapters in other books and many articles on economics.
Europe and the Academy of the Judeo-Christian West
Paul Sweeney 10/05/2019
Steve Bannon is establishing an Alt-Right Academy in an Italian monastery, pictured above, in Trisulti, outside Rome, called the Academy of the …
Europe
Paul Sweeney 24/04/2019
I am writing this in the south west of France, in one of the many villages which were walled to protect from neighbours, looking out at the …
The Entrepreneurial Irish State
Paul Sweeney 31/01/2019
Perhaps the most sucessful example of the entrepreneurial state in Ireland is IDA Ireland. It is a state agency which has been incredibley successful …
Privatisation Pendulum Swings Back.
Paul Sweeney 20/12/2018
In my last blog in November, we saw that privatisation is being reversed in the UK, the original home of the Thatcher ideology of “rolling back the …
Finally, the Privatisation Pendulum Swings Back.
Paul Sweeney 09/11/2018
Trends in Economics Trends in economics swing one way and then back. The privatisation trend that begun in the 1980s in the UK is finally swinging …
Will the Rainy Day Fund Become Another Corporate Bailout?
Paul Sweeney 03/09/2018
The last National Pension Reserve Fund was raided & most of it was squandered. Ireland had a Sovereign Wealth Fund – 1% of GNP plus profits …
The Irish Entrepreneurial State
Paul Sweeney 27/06/2018
In the last blog I set out how Aer Lingus, an entrepreneurial Irish state company, grew into a major company with over 14,000 employees in several …
The Irish Entrepreneurial State
Paul Sweeney 11/06/2018
In my last blog I looked at the Wild Atlantic Way as a good example of entrepreneurial thinking by public employees of the Irish state. Mariana …
An Irish Entrepreneurial State’s Success
Paul Sweeney 25/04/2018
In a recent blog, we saw how economist Mariana Mazzucato demonstrated that it was not the hugely profitable and tax-avoiding tech firms which were …
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