Monday, March 15, 2010

Economics 15/03/2010: The failure of the state is a failure of society

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Here is an unedited version of my article in the current issue (March-April 2010) of Village magazine. Pull Quote: “Replacement of foreign ...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Economics 13/03/2010: Why Farmleigh report falls flat

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I must confess, last week produced a bumper crop of new (and old) 'proposals' for fixing Ireland. Tasc had one (the Letter of 28) - ...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Economics 12/03/2010: Anglo's latest fun in the sun

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In latest development: as Mr Alan Dukes – retired politician extraordinaire – takes over as the Chairman and Executive Chairman of the Anglo...
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Economics 12/03/2010: Industrial production

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If you believe in fairies and elves and the story of the MNCs carrying out Ireland out of the slump driven by collapse of domestic economy,...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Economics 11/03/2010: Replying to Prof Krugman

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Updated: 14/03/2010 I have a choice today - to either deal with the notoriously influential article by Paul Krugman, or respond to a large n...
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Economics 11/03/2010: Debt figures confusion reigns at RTE?

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Per RTE report yesterday (emphasis is mine, see original here ) “New figures from the Central Bank show that at the end of Jan...
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Monday, March 8, 2010

Economics 08/03/2010: 28 Alices in Wonderland of Tasc economics

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Update: one of the signatories to the Letter of 28 is responding to my comment here . After a very lengthy period of navel gazing, Irish lef...
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Economics 07/03/2010: Consensus governance and failures to compete

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Yesterday I tweeted about the case of attempted suppression of academic freedom in France (see here ). An interesting paper, publi...
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Economics 07/03/2010: A long term view of the currency markets

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With the euro unsteady against the dollar (post-10%+ drop in recent months from its highs over 1.50 in December 2009 to 1.35) there is a que...
Saturday, March 6, 2010

Economics 06/03/2010: Pensions Plan that confirms my worst fears

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Per comments to my blog posts on pensions: Article 4.2.3. of the National Pensions Framework states (emphasis is mine): &q...
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Economics 06/03/2010: Do friendships matter in a workplace?

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An interesting article on workplace organization/networks and productivity of workers, forthcoming in the next month's issue of Review o...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Economics 05/03/2010: More questions on pensions plan

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In a recent post ( here ) I have asked 12 questions concerning the new Government plan for pensions. Here are more questions to follow. But ...
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