More than a decade ago, Dublin University Press published a
collection of the author's writings on Irish topics. Their main
concerns were issues such as the harmful effects of the unusual
Irish voting system and the poor performance of the country's
bureaucracy. It can fairly be claimed for one of them ("The
Lemmings of Democracy") that it showed well in advance why and how
Ireland would be particularly hard hit by the financial crisis of
2009. In this new and expanded edition, more recently written
Chapters take up the themes of the earlier ones, but put more
emphasis on innovation and history. One of them, "Understanding
Britain's "Brexit" Parliament," provides an essential clue to the
problems with the Irish voting system identified earlier. "The
History group" contains an account of the scarcely known but
crucial part Ireland played in two scientific revolutions. It also
reveals how the law of Limited Liability on which every Corporation
in the world depends, had its origin in Dublin's eighteenth-century
independent Parliament. Much of the time intervening between the
two editions was devoted to the research and writing of the book,
How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial
Innovation. These Irish articles are in fact a running commentary
on the evolution of this global process in one country.
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