Economy
Michael D Higgins claimed economists in Ireland were ‘stuck in an inexorable growth story’
Economists have toppled President Michael D Higgins, claiming that comments he made about their profession are “lazy,” “outdated,” “uninformed,” and “incomprehensible.”
In a speech Friday in Áras an Uachtaráin, the president said economists were “stuck in an inexorable growth narrative,” an “empty economy that has lost touch with anything that makes sense.”
He said he called on third-level institutions to broaden their education in economics to the “emancipatory potential for a …
