New and Expanded Edition Co-published with Peter Lang
More than a decade ago, Dublin University Press published “Interrogating Irish Policies’, a collection of William Kingston’s writings on Irish topics. The main concerns of these writings were issues such as the harmful effects of the unusual Irish voting system and the poor performance of the country’s bureaucracy. It can be fairly 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 of “Interrogating Irish Policies”, recently written chapters take up the themes of the first edition, 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 in the earlier edition. “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 intervening time between the two editions was devoted to the research and writing of the book, “How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation”. The chapters of “Interrogating Irish Policies” (2021) comprise a running commentary on the evolution of that global process in one country.
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