The Irish Branch of the Regional Studies Association, the School of Economics UCC and the South West Regional Authority invite speakers for the following one day conference:
REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
MILLENNIUM HALL, CORK CITY
Friday 22 February 2013
Introduction: The economic crisis that has swept across the global economy since 2008 has had significant implications for regional economies. It is clear that the global economic crisis has had an uneven impact across regions. This raises questions as to the resilience of different regions to economic crises, and the place of policy makers in strengthening regional economic resilience. The RSA, the School of Economics UCC and the SWRA wish to invite you to a one-day conference on the theme of Regional Economic Resilience.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
PROFESSOR RON MARTIN, Professor of Economic Geography, Fellow Cambridge-MIT Institute Research
DR ADRIAN HEALY, Cardiff School of Planning and Geography. Dr. Healy currently co-ordinates an ESPON-funded leading study into economic resilience of regions in the face of economic crisis. Apart from EU-wide insights his presentation will focus on the findings of his case study of the South West Region.
For conference flier with full program and conference updates, see: http://www.regionalstudies.org/events/event/regional-economic-resilience
Ireland after NAMA 
January 23, 2013 at 7:04 pm
Resilience or redundancy is perhaps the most important of economic concepts.
It is the very opposite of efficiency.
The Eurosystem was perhaps the most efficient economic system ever created which is why it collapsed and given further efforts to drive resources upwards beyond even nation state systems has now crossed a sort of economic & monetary event horizon which insures all those who traveled in its ship will disappear in a monetary singularity.
The nation state was perhaps the largest political and economic unit that was in some sense stable and given its large scale structure was already pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved.
The Euro Soviet like all Soviets will start to kill its passengers as the futile nature of the project pushes resources out of the hands of the base into the apex of the structure,
Irish savings is clearly no longer local to the Irish & British hinterland.
I.e. it is no longer a defined economic & political hinterland that can trade with other defined hinterlands for goods and services.
From a combined monetary and geographical perspective the isolated islands of Ireland / Cyprus & the isolated peninsulas of Iberia , Italy & Greece are worth more dead then alive as the diesel they once burned for local economic activity can be more efficiently destroyed /burned in Germany & France (the core)
The Core is in fact a black hole.
You can clearly see this drive for further extreme efficiency at the expense of redundancy when you look at the IEAs oil consumption moving average in the eurozone economies.
In particular diesel consumption (work) which is being stripped from the periphery to service the core.
The charts are striking and very very dramatic.
How many more people will we allow the system to kill in the interests of efficiency ?
This is in fact a very Nazi doctrine of faith.