13/12/13 

As Ireland exits the bailout what future faces the country?

Exit from the Bailout Special

08/01/14

In the show this week Hugh Linehan rounds up the latest political news with Harry McGee and Fiach Kelly. He discusses the prospects for Lucinda Creighton and The Reform Alliance with Jane Suiter. Plus he talks polls and predictions with some of Ireland's best analysts, Noel Whelan, Damian Loscher and Dr Adrian Kavanagh.

Reform Alliance, Polls and Predictions

In this week's podcast Tom Lyons discusses the top 1000 companies in the country with Fiona Reddan. 

He also analyses the Construction 2020 plan with Arthur Beesley and Barry O'Halloran. 

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Top 1000 Companies, Construction 2020 - Mega Plan

In this week's World View Denis discusses the latest from Thailand with Clifford Coonan where the military has declared martial law. He hears from Rahul Bedi in Delhi where Modi's is about to begin his rule. Finally Denis speaks with Dan McLaughlin in Lviv, Ukraine where the country is preparing for a presidential election vote on Sunday. 

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Thailand, Modi, Ukraine Elections

Denis is joined by Mark Weiss from Jerusalem and Simon Carswell from Washington to talk about Netanyahu's victory in the election and increasing tensions with The White House. Plus, Simon gives the background to Texas Republican Ted Cruz's campaign for the presidency. 

Israel/US tensions, Ted Cruz

Speaker(s): Euclid Tsakalotos | What are the prospects of the Left in government after the summer agreement? Can that agreement be incorporated into a political strategy that furthers social justice and a different economic model? Can Greece act as catalyst for wider progressive changes in the Eurozone and the EU? Euclid Tsakalotos (@tsakalotos) is the Greek Finance Minister. Kevin Featherstone is Hellenic Observatory Director, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies & Professor of European Politics and LSEE-Research on South Eastern Europe Co-Chair.

Economic Blues: the left in government times [Audio]

Speaker(s): Professor Robert J. Shiller | Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand.  Robert Shiller delivers a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception. Rather than being essentially benign and always creating the greater good, markets are inherently filled with tricks and traps and will “phish” us as “phools.” This represents a radically new direction in economics, based on the intuitive idea that markets both give and take away. We spend our money up to the limit, and then worry about how to pay the next month’s bills. The financial system soars, then crashes. We are attracted, more than we know, by advertising. Our political system is distorted by money. We pay too much for gym memberships, cars, houses, and credit cards. Drug companies ingeniously market pharmaceuticals that do us little good, and sometimes are downright dangerous. Phishing for Phools explores the central role of manipulation and deception in each of these areas and many more. It thereby explains a paradox: why, at a time when we are better off than ever before in history, all too many of us are leading lives of quiet desperation. Robert J Shiller (@RobertJShiller), the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics, is a best-selling author, a regular contributor to the Economic View column of the New York Times, and a professor of economics at Yale University. His books include Finance and the Good Society, Animal Spirits (co-written with George A. Akerlof), The Subprime Solution, The New Financial Order and Irrational Exuberance. Wouter Den Haan is Professor of Economics at LSE and Co-Director of the Centre for Macroeconomics. The Department of Economics at LSE (@LSEEcon) is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching. The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) brings together world-class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and to help design policies that alleviate it.

Phishing for Phools: the economics of manipulation and deception [Audio]

Speaker(s): Dr Susan George | Can Progressives slow the success of neo-liberalism? In recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever, impeding the possibility for progress. Ahead of the Spanish elections and climate change negotiations, Susan George will draw on her new book about the power of big business and her decades of activism and writing to analyse the possibilities for progress. Susan George is a political activist, widely-translated author and President of the Transnational Institute. Her latest book is Shadow Sovereigns: how global corporations are seizing power. Robin Archer is Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE. The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry. The next lecture in the “Progress and its Discontents” series will be taking place on Thursday 19 November with Professor Michael Cox Red Flag over Houghton Street? The Radical Tradition at the LSE - Myth, Reality and Fact.

Shadow Sovereigns: how global corporations are seizing power [Audio]

Speaker(s): Dr Kate Devlin, Dr Mateja Jamnik, Professor Huw Price, Dr Mark Sprevak 
Chair: Dr Jonathan Birch

Recorded on 7 December 2015 at Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

AI is progressing fast. What level has it reached? Is human-level AI a realistic possibility? And if it is achieved in the near future, what will the consequences be for humanity? Could AI threaten our very existence? In this panel discussion, philosophers Huw Price and Mark Sprevak and computer scientists Mateja Jamnik and Kate Devlin discuss these and other questions concerning AI and the future of humanity. 

Kate Devlin is a Lecturer in Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Mateja Jamnik is Senior Lecturer in Computing at Cambridge. 

Huw Price is Professor of Philosophy, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Cambridge. 

Mark Sprevak is Senior Lecture of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. 

Dr Jonathan Birch is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow. 

The Forum for European Philosophy (@ForumPhilosophy) is an educational charity that organises a full and varied programme of philosophy and interdisciplinary events in the UK.

Will Machines Rule the World?

Speaker(s): Professor David Harvey | David Harvey's politicised work on geography, social theory, urban political economy and capitalism has shaped academic debate for decades. He is one of the most cited social scientists in the world, and his works have been translated into multiple languages. Here, Harvey joins a panel of experts to explore his ideas - and alternative views. David Harvey (@profdavidharvey) is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Michael Storper (@michaelstorper) is Professor of Economic Geography at LSE, and holds Professorships at Sciences-Po and UCLA. Jane Wills is Professor of Human Geography, Queen Mary, University of London. Murray Low is Associate Professor of Human Geography in the LSE Department of Geography & Environment. The LSE Department of Geography & Environment (@LSEGeography) is a centre of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.

The Power of Ideas: a discussion with David Harvey [Audio]

As the dust settles on #GE16 Diarmaid Ferriter, Mary Minihan and Fintan O'Toole join Hugh to discuss the result. 

Was social democracy the winner? 
How did liberals and Catholic conservatives fare?
Where did Fianna Fáil's unexpected support come from? 
Does the proposed Dáil reform go far enough? 

Result Analysis with Diarmaid Ferriter, Mary Minihan and Fintan O'Toole

Donald Trump has pulled off one of the greatest upsets in political history by beating Hillary Clinton to the White House. How did he do it, and how did the pundits get it so wrong? And what can we expect from the unpredictable president-elect? Hugh Linehan talks to Simon Carswell and Ruadhan Mac Cormaic, who are in New York at the Trump and Clinton HQs.

Election Special: President Donald Trump

Paradise Papers is the name given to a journalistic project organised by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC along with 96 media partners around the world, including The Irish Times.

It is one of the largest data leaks in journalistic history, and involves the largest number of documents ever leaked.

The leaked documents show how deeply the offshore financial system is entangled with the overlapping worlds of political players, private wealth and corporate giants, including Apple, Nike, Uber and other global companies that avoid taxes through increasingly imaginative bookkeeping maneuvers.

Irish Times Legal Affairs Correspondent Colm Keena has been working on the project, and on this podcast he talks to Hugh Linehan about what has been uncovered, including the investments made by famous figures such as Bono and Queen Elizabeth, and the legal advice received by AIB when The Revenue Commissioners requested information about offshore deposits.

Inside Story - Paradise Papers

Prime Minister Theresa May is facing trouble on every front: in her Cabinet, in Westminster, with Taoiseach Varadkar and Minister Coveney in Dublin, and at the Brexit negotiating table. Who would want her job? Denis Staunton is on the line from London. 

In part two: heads were turned toward Poland last weekend as an Independence Day march was attended by thousands of far-right demonstrators, an expression of nationalism, anti-immigrant anger and anti-EU sentiment. The marchers were approved of by some of the ruling Law and Justice party. Derek Scally on how the far-right fits into Polish society and the growing gulf between Poland's government and Brussels.

Crisis-Stricken May, Ireland's Position / Is Poland at Odds with Europe?

The best analysis of the Irish political scene featuring Irish Times journalists, political thinkers and the occasional politician. Hosted by Arts & Culture Editor Hugh Linehan.

Result Analysis with Diarmaid Ferriter, Mary Minihan and Fintan O'Toole

Inside Politics

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