ASPO Ireland

Last Saturday (27th November) I organised a workshop, the first public outing of a new think tank I’ve helped start – the Centre for Progressive Economics. The title of the workshop was ‘The Global Economic Crisis: Analyses and Responses’ and on a very cold morning around 30 people braved the elements to listen to three presentations and discuss ways in which the progressive left in general and the Trades Union movement in Northern Ireland in particular could beef up its analysis through engaging with university reseachers and becoming informed of the growing and existing evidence base for alternative economic analyses and policy prescriptions to the dominant ‘neo-liberal’ one.   I’ve written a summary here.