Aidan Regan: Ireland’s Profits Look Extraordinary - But It’s the Balance Sheet, Not the Real Economy, Doing the Work

Aidan Regan: Ireland’s Profits Look Extraordinary - But It’s the Balance Sheet, Not the Real Economy, Doing the Work

Ireland’s Profits Look Extraordinary — But It’s the Balance Sheet, Not the Real Economy, Doing the Work Aidan Regan is professor at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations Cross-posted from Democracy Challenged Photo: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license Profit shares are supposed to tell a simple story: when a business produces something, how much of the value created ends up as profit …