Pamphlets and Working Papers

Posted on December 14, 2018December 18, 2018 by peadarkirby

2013: Tábhacht na Gaeilge i dtodhchaí na tire: The Necessity for Re-Europeanising Ireland’, Coiscéim 2011: (with Baldur Thorhallsson) Financial Crises in Iceland and Ireland: Does EU membership and the euro matter? TASC and the Centre for Small State Studies, November 2011 2009: with Pádraig Carmody: ‘Moving Beyond the Legacies of the Celtic Tiger’, IIIS Discussion Paper No. 300, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, October 2009 2009: ‘The Competition State – Lessons from Ireland’, Limerick Papers in Politics and Public Administration, No. 1, 2009. 2008: Explaining Ireland’s Development: Economic Growth with Weakening Welfare, Social Policy and Development Paper No. 36, UN Research Institute for…

This book addresses the global need to transition to a low-carbon society and economy by 2050. The authors interrogate the dominant frames used for understanding this challenge and the predominant policy approaches for achieving it. Highlighting the techno-optimism that informs our current understanding and policy options, this book written by Peadar Kirby and Tadhg O’Mahony draws on the lessons of international development to situate the transition within a political economy framework. Assisted by thinking on future scenarios, they critically examine the range of pathways being implemented by both developed and developing countries, identifying the prevailing forms of climate capitalism led by technology. Based on evidence that this is inadequate to achieve a low-carbon and sustainable society, the authors identify an alternative approach. This advance emerges from community initiatives, discussions on postcapitalism and debates about wellbeing and degrowth. The re-positioning of society and environment at the core of development can be labelled “ecosocialism” – a concept which must be tempered against the conditions created by Trumpism and Brexit.