Economics
Irish debt and the heart of Saint O’Toole
March 16, 2012Thereby hangs a typical Irish tale filled with metaphors, parallels, and some pretty serious weirdness.
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Weeklong “Occupy Nigeria” strike wins victory
January 17, 2012A weeklong nationwide strike resulted in a victory for Nigerians as the government on Monday agreed to partially restore a popular fuel subsidy.
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“Why Marx Was Right”: lively challenge to 10 myths
December 16, 2011Eagleton's bright, witty book marches forward into the usual stumbling blocks erected over the decades in the environment of popular ideology and topples them.
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Confronting the walking dead: John Quiggin’s “Zombie Economics”
November 8, 2011The zombie metaphor is both witty and apt when discussing how ideas about society and finance that have alarmingly failed refuse to stay dead and buried.
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Can we avoid history’s “blood-dimmed tide”?
October 13, 2011The destruction of the Roman Empire took over 300 years ending with the sack of Rome
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