Tagged: Operational Capture

A country is not a business

Five stories from one day's news cycle in Ireland reveal the Ireland.Inc frame: socialised costs, private upside, externalities borne by the public.

The forest the State decided to manage for someone else

How Ireland's public forestry agency, Coillte, came to operate a Gresham House private forestry fund. The 1988 Act gated both access and financial upside.