Innovation versus Recession

Hello,

How will Ireland get out of its current, sudden, sharp (yet rather predictable) post-property bubble slump? Well, if our leaders and most media commentators are to be believed, essentially by Taking The Pain and in a few years things will mysteriously be ok again.

That may be true. Full disclosure - unlike it seems 95% of the Irish population, I'm not an economist, not even an armchair one. However I do believe that perhaps it might be interesting it we took all the guff spouted by our betters about innovation and, most dread phrase of all, the knowledge economy, at face value. If Ireland is to get out of this recessaion, or even we are to endure it less painfully, we'll need to get creative again.

This blog is intended to be a return to the wild frontier of the internet - a febrile clearing house and crossing point for ideas. Innovation in politics, economics, technology, philosophy, science, medicine, psychology, literature, art, music (anything I've left out?) and any combination thereof. From all points of the spectrum (except the really unpleasant and nasty ones) and from all levels of expertise.