Joan Burton - Opening Speech - National Strategies from Feasta on Vimeo.
Joan Burton is Irish Minister for Social Protection and Labour deputy leader. This speech was given on September 22 2011.Fergal O’Brien – Balancing austerity with a growth strategy for the economy
Fergal O'Brien is Head of Economics and Taxation and Chief Economist with the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC). He is a member of the National Statistics Board and represents Irish business on a number of fora at EU level. [...]
Paul Sweeney – Energy prices, the boom/bust cycle and prospects for global economic growth
Paul Sweeney is the Chief Economist at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He is President of the Statistical and Social Enquiry Society of Ireland, a member of the National Competitiveness Council of Ireland and a member of the National Statistics Board and the Ageing Well Network. [...]
Richard Douthwaite – Energy prices, the boom/bust cycle and prospects for global economic growth
Richard Douthwaite is an economist, ecologist and writer. He is co-founder of Feasta. He has been a council member of Comhar, the Irish government's national sustainability council and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. [...]
Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev – Adopting a comprehensive approach to dealing with private debt
Dr Constantin Gurdgiev, Adjunct Lecturer in Finance Trinity College, Dublin and Smurfit School of Business, UCD. Head of Research at St Columbanus AG, Non-Executive Member, Investment Committee at GoldCore ltd and an Advisory Board Member (Non-Executive) at HeinzGAM. [...]
Peter Brown – Debt forgiveness and moral hazard
Peter Brown is the main lecturer and Managing Director of the Irish Institute of Financial Trading (IIFT). He is also a financial commentator across various media channels. As Executive Chairman of IIFT, Peter has been at the vanguard of developing training courses for would-be participants of the financial markets. [...]
