Rory Hearne
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352 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 24 Aug
Rory Hearne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, where is the economy at from a kind of macroeconomic critical analysis perspective?
That's incredible that our level of... Of phantom, of phantom kind of economics.
Distorted the entire European Union's measure of growth.
And then all policies and political direction is based on those annual figures of what is growth.
So they're not insignificant.
It's interesting, Conor, because I think that also, and I think it's important in our analysis and critique, that it's not just the media.
Because the media, as you know very well, having been through so much economics and political science and public policy, that the economists and our economics departments and our public policy and political departments, the intellectuals, the...
you know, we can name them the IFAC economists, they all very much, not they all, but there is, has been within a lot of the economic analysis, mainstream economic analysis that's within the media from the experts has very much gone along with that and has been very much the kind of neoliberal economic analysis.
Yeah, this is an issue, but ultimately our economy is built around these companies and, you know,
Really, they still use, don't they teach in the economics textbooks?
GDP is the measure of economic development and the issues of poverty, of well-being, of mental health, of have people access to housing.
They're not how you measure economic development.
But normal people who aren't out knocking on doors.
Yeah, and I think that's so true.
And it's something, you know, even I was thinking there recently in terms of the public sector, for example, you know, and the role the public sector plays in the economy.
And that's never talked about.
It's always talked about at cost.
Yet, like, for example, we were meeting the National Transport Authority yesterday around bus services for Finglas and Glasnevin, and we were talking to Dublin Bus, and they were talking about, oh, we need to go recruit, you know, we're recruiting drivers, we're going to South Africa to recruit drivers, which is also very interesting, of course, is Simon Harris telling them now, oh, you can no longer recruit drivers from South Africa, even though they need bus drivers so that people in Finglas and Glasnevin can get buses.
And it just, anyway, it's interesting, I was thinking in terms of
the role that that company plays.
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