Tagged with: privatisation
Plan now for the biggest socialisation ever
Paul Sweeney 15/04/2020
The greatest socialisation ever of the world’s private sector is taking place hourly. It will continue until the end of 2020 and beyond. It is a profound transformation of the private/public divide or the state/market relationship. It was never planned. This massive socialisation of our economic system, capitalism, is the pragmatic solution to …
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 …
ESB should build broadband network in co-operation with other State utilities
Donal Palcic, Eoin Reeves 19/10/2018
Last week’s controversial resignation of minister Denis Naughten is generally believed to have thrown the National Broadband Plan (NBP) into …
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 …
The Spectre Haunting Europe
Michael Taft 01/12/2017
There is a spectre haunting Europe – the spectre of de-privatisation, re-municipalisation, and re-nationalisation. Local, regional and national …
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