28. Dr. Patrick Collins: Associate Professor In Economic Geography

Episode 28 is a ramble in the economic forests with Patrick Collins: Ireland being the richest member state of the Europe Union; tax avoidance; dodgy metrics; gross domestic product vs gross national product; Apple vs. Italy; Davos vs. Oxfam; neoliberal economics; Francois Holland; Adam Smith; Thatcherism; market dominance and moligopolies; the environment; the breakdown in trust for key institutions of democracy and the exponential rise of corporations; living wage; Yanis Varoufakis; dignity; teleological notions; The five stages of Rostow's Economic Theory; carbon offsetting and carbon credits; the cost of living and housing crises; the impact of Google in Ireland; the Irish government’s investment in Intel; nine of the top 10 global tech companies having a serious presence in Ireland; the European Court of Justice vs. Apple; The Troika; The Big Short; markets being a collective hallucination; John Maynard Keynes; pre and post 2008 in Ireland; the Irish vs. Greek economies; the spatial articulation of capital with regard to Irish villages; Celtic Tiger No. 2; IDA and Enterprise Ireland; Ireland having confidence in itself and companies being embedded within Ireland; living wage; technofeudalism; as well as other topics. 

Relevant Links

https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/geography-and-archaeology/pcollins/

https://www.orpenpress.com/books/galway-making-a-capital-of-culture/

https://www.urbanlabgalway.com/

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