Posts by Professor James Wickham

Professor James Wickham
James Wickham was Jean Monnet Professor of European Labour Market Studies and Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. He has published widely on employment, transport and migration in Ireland and Europe; he is the author of Gridlock: Dublin’s Transport Crisis and the Future of the City and co-author of New Mobilities in Europe: Polish Migration to Ireland post-2004. His book Unequal Europe: Social divisions and social cohesion in an old continent analysed the collapse of the European Social Model; his new text book European Societies (Routledge 2020) examines the structures of inequality in contemporary Europe. He is a former director of TASC.
Rising tides, luxury yachts and leaky fishing boats
James Wickham 11/01/2010
James Wickham: Everyone assumes that the aim of economic policy must be to return to "growth". But more than ever, we need to ask what sort of …
Getting behind the Madoff Curve?
James Wickham 24/11/2009
James Wickham: One convenient justification for high pay is that the more people are paid, the harder they work and the greater their output will be. …
Buses are not widgets
James Wickham 17/11/2009
James Wickham: In a recent article in the Irish Times (29/10/2009) Sean Barrett criticised the new Public Transport Regulation Bill. He claimed it …
Scaring us into greater inequality
James Wickham 09/11/2009
James Wickham: In a recent article in the Irish Times (4 November) Philip Lane warned that higher levels of income taxation could restrict Ireland's …
Why (Irish) economists' eyes are smiling
James Wickham 07/10/2009
James Wickham: There’s a curious paradox about economists in Ireland today. In the middle of the financial crisis, the public standing of …
The Ryanair Model of Development?
James Wickham 05/05/2009
James Wickham: Ryanair is an Irish success story. Ryanair’s high profile CEO, Michael O’Leary, is one of the country’s home grown billionaires. …
Growing up about taxes
James Wickham 14/04/2009
James Wickham: Maybe it’s time to grow up about taxes. One feature of the Celtic Tiger years was the way in which Ireland’s role as a low tax …
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