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June 9th, 2016

Life and death: At mercy of the market

Imagine a new drug has been invented that would save only one person, but which would take the entire health […]

June 2nd, 2016

The roles of financial threat, social support, work stress and mental distress in dairy farmers’ expectations of injury

Our paper just published in Frontiers of Public Health.

May 30th, 2016

There is a recovery in employment

Judging by the discussions I hear on radio and read in the new programme for partnership government, you’d swear that […]

May 27th, 2016

What drove up US Household debt?

Apostolos Fasianos and I take a look at what drove up US household debt here:

May 25th, 2016

The full blow of Brexit

The subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will vote yes or no on June 23 […]

May 22nd, 2016

Coveney faces uphill battle to speed up rate at which things usually happen here

Imagine you crash your car at 10 miles per hour. Now imagine you crash your car at 100 miles per […]

May 16th, 2016

Why I signed the tax haven open letter

You may not know this, but if you’ve purchased a book online, you’ve used a tax haven. Tax havens exist […]

May 9th, 2016

An excoriation of Europe’s elites from a Greek prophet

Non-fiction; And the Weak Suffer ; What They Must?; By Yanis Varoufakis ; Bodley Head, €23 The Bundesbank is the […]

May 9th, 2016

Even with €3.2 billion more to play with, we can’t do everything

So we have a deal. The deal commits us to an extra €3.2 billion of extra spending between now and […]

May 2nd, 2016

The strange paradoxes of Irish Water

How is it possible to hold mutually exclusive beliefs publicly and not be called out for these beliefs, while at […]

April 28th, 2016

Stock Flow Models, Rent Controls and Being the Green Latern of Economics

I did an interview for the Economics Rockstar podcast, thanks to Frank Conway for the chance to have the chat.

April 26th, 2016

Risk, Crisis, and Society Guest Lecture Slides

Lecture 1 is here (.pdf) Lecture 2 is here (.pdf). I really enjoyed giving these lectures to the Risk, Crisis, and Society […]

April 25th, 2016

Bermuda triangle of competitiveness

The simplest way to tell the story is not always the right one. Forget the debate over lowering wages – […]

April 17th, 2016

The imagination gap of central bankers

It is very hard to feel sorry for central bankers. Well-paid, hyper-educated, unelected technocrats with enormous power rarely inspire public […]

April 11th, 2016

Multinationals distort our ability to assess the economy’s health

It’s not been a great week to be part of the global elite, the 10 per cent of every society […]

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