❝ Once a wily constituency politician, President Michael D Higgins may avoid full-frontal attacks on Government politicians, but economists are grist to the mill and have come under the mallet numerous times (via IrishTimesOpEd)
He didn’t just dismiss those bad boys in the past tense: “Many economists remain stuck in an inexorable growth narrative or at best a green growth narrative ... A fixation on a narrowly defined efficiency, productivity, perpetual growth has resulted in a discipline that has become blinkered to ...
At one point, he swerved off script to have a lash at people who control the budget surpluses but, even then, brought the blame back on the “priesthood” .
However, President Higgins himself has been unwilling to learn or engage over the years, say the same damned economists. Some speak of invitations to bespoke seminars offered by reputable institutions that went unacknowledged or were declined. Economists find his views unrecognisable in their teaching or debates.
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