Tag: neoliberalism
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RTÉ’s governance needs to be decentralized
Labour leader’s dig in Dáil ‘Goodbye Viktor Orbán, hello Patrick O’Donovan“. highlighted a serious issue that is being left largely unaddressed – the lack of trust in and less acknowledged the lack of trustworthiness in the media, especially public service media. It is not just woke lefties – a lot of rhetoric from the right-wing…
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Horseshit: Turning Voters into Consumers
This week a leaflet dropped in my letterbox from a candidate in the upcoming Dublin Central Dáil by-election, expected May 22nd, 2026. It focused on a local issue: the illegal dumping of horse manure. It detailed the party’s efforts to hold the local area manager accountable through formal queries. On the surface, it’s exactly what…
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Economics as a discipline is in trouble: Its own lessons on monopoly even say so!
Economics plays a central role in our societies with major policies framed, formed and implemented by its specialists and its special way of viewing the world (Maesse et al. ,2021). This role has brought some benefits- it is hard to deny that the phenomenal increase in general living standards and equality in developed countries from…