Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The professor said he does not like to campaign and was not comfortable moving from research. In the same introduction of 2008, he said:

However, our essential message in this review is upbeat, recognising that there is a danger that Irish society could be transfixed by the current very real difficulties, missing the opportunity to plan and prepare for a better future in the next decade.

Does that paragraph not show he abandoned his role as an economic scientist for a motivational preacher?