Investment denial and the new road map

Michael Taft10/10/2011

Michael Taft: Colm McCarthy’s post on Irish Economy takes a sceptical look at ‘productive investment’, or more precisely, the Government’s claim that the New ERA proposals – can create up to 100,000 jobs. This leads him to state that:

‘The spectre of politicians seeking to create 100,000 jobs through extra public spending is every economist’s nightmare.’

One could quip that not creating 100,000 jobs should be every economist’s nightmare. However, let’s examine what exactly a public investment-led recovery programme is intended to do. For the last thing we need in the debate is a series of assertions that sheds little light on means to kick-start recovery. You can read the rest of this post here.

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Michael Taft     @notesonthefront

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Michael Taft is an economic analyst and trade unionist. He is author of the Notes of the Front blog and a member of the TASC Economists’ Network.


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