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		<title>The Rise of the Plutocrats and the Death of Fiscal Democracy</title>
		<link>http://aregan.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/plutocrats-are-undermining-the-irish-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most effective way to embed economic conservatism and undermine the fiscal capacity of the state is through a public policy regime of long term tax cuts. This is precisely what occurred in the USA since the late 1970s and Ireland &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/plutocrats-are-undermining-the-irish-republic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1528&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Adjustment in Neoliberal America and Monetarist Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The different political strategies of adjustment being pursued in America and Europe reflect two very different institutional and policy regimes; neoliberalism and monetarism. The USA is neoliberal in orientation with the political capacity to be Keynesian. Europe, given that it &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/the-politics-of-adjustment-in-neoliberal-america-and-monetarist-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1519&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Macroeconomic Imbalances in Europe is the Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The core problem at the heart of Europe is a structural imbalance between export led economies with current account surpluses (Germany, Netherlands, Austria and Finland) and economies with current account deficits (Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland). This is a &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/macroeconomic-imbalances-in-europe-is-the-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1513&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Ireland and the Euro in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the year when the economic experiment of the Fine Gael/Labour coalition and their partners in the IMF/ECB/EU commission will be put to the test. The continuation of the experiment has failed thus far and there is little reason to expect &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/the-future-of-ireland-and-the-euro-what-the-government-wont-or-cant-tell-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1498&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Ideas &#8211; Explaining the Shift from Keynesianism to Neoliberalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The importance of economic ideas and beliefs about the political-economic world have an enormous impact on public policy. There have been two dominant paradigms since World War two; Keynesianism and Neoliberalism &#8211; the first was a reaction, and a temporary stop-gap, to &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/the-power-of-ideas-explaining-the-shift-from-keynesianism-to-neoliberalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1469&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Explaining Institutional Change in European Political Economies &#8211; The Case of Ireland</title>
		<link>http://aregan.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/explaining-institutional-change-and-agency-in-political-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do domestic political actors (state, capital and labour) respond to the adjustment constraints of globalised variants of international market liberalisation? This question guides the analysis of my PhD, and premised on an argument that the politics of capitalist change can be traced &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/explaining-institutional-change-and-agency-in-political-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1451&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Price Formation in Capitalist Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fluctuation in the price of government issued bonds is causing chaos. This begs the question &#8211; why has there been no attempt to politically control fluctuating market prices for government debt? Why have democratically elected governments not stood up to &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/the-myth-of-price-formation-in-capitalist-markets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1443&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Taxing and Socialising Wealth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post world war two, the dominant public policy paradigm in Europe was Keynesianism. This meant that economic activity was politically directed toward productive investment. The Fordist industrial mode of production was labour intensive. Therefore, the capital accumulation regime &#8216;put labour &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/tax-the-rich-or-socialise-the-wealth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1435&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The European Government of Goldman Sachs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Berlusconi was eventually removed, like Papendreou, by external forces in the ECB alongside European technocrats and anonymous bankers. The money markets decided that Italy must pay a premium on its bonds for having Berlusconi as head of government. Within days he &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/the-european-government-of-goldman-sachs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1426&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Theory of Institutional Change in Capitalist Societies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You cannot step into the same river twice; nothing endures but change”’   Heraclitus (535 BC) In the study of democratic capitalism one is confronted with the challenge of explaining how institutions change and evolve over time. Previously, a large shock or &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/explaining-institutional-change-in-capitalist-societies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5697486&amp;post=1407&amp;subd=aregan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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