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August 31st, 2008

McWilliams hits the nail on the head on Irish Credit Crunch Solution

Image via Wikipedia David McWilliams, echoing Martin Feldstein in the FT earlier this week, suggests a Central Bank refinancing of […]

August 30th, 2008

How wage agreements eroded competitiveness

Image via Wikipedia Not entirely sure how I missed this, but my colleague Dr Tony Leddin has a piece called […]

August 28th, 2008

Today's Twitter Rant Collation

Merlin Mann is right, this Kirsty McColl song is the best thing on the internets: http://tinyurl.com/5g9hla #

August 28th, 2008

Pedagogical Approaches to Theories of Endogenous versus Exogenous Money: Pluralism in Action?

Here's the third of the `teaching' papers series I've been writing recently. First, I was interested in exploring problem based […]

August 28th, 2008

Should the government give a temporary tax rebate to first time buyers to stimulate the housing market? Example

A quick update on this post. I'd like to give an example of what I mean by a rebate program […]

August 28th, 2008

Looking at Ireland's National Income, 2002-2007

August saw the release of the National Income and Product Accounts for 2007. A few choice graphs for y'all this […]

August 27th, 2008

Today's Twitter Rant Collation

Less driving means less dying. http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008410.html Great pedagogical piece for EC4004. #

August 27th, 2008

Should the Irish government give a temporary tax rebate to first time buyers to stimulate the housing market?

Yes, and here's why. The government is considering introducing measures to boost flagging consumer demand for housing via incentive programs […]

August 26th, 2008

Today's Twitter Rant Collation

Ten Web Trends to Watch: http://tinyurl.com/49njnx # Over 100 years, food prices have fallen by 82%. http://tinyurl.com/5whxxo # Jeff Sachs: […]

August 25th, 2008

Today's Twitter Rant Collation

http://tinyurl.com/5t439s # screencasts of the nobel laureates: http://tinyurl.com/6boceb #

August 25th, 2008

The Economist as Preacher

Reading this classic article by George Stigler, one could be forgiven for thinking he's talking about Ireland's doom and gloom […]

August 25th, 2008

Interesting Problem Based Learning Symposium in Singapore

I'm very interested in Problem Based Learning. I've written about it, presented papers on it, written case studies about PBL, […]

August 24th, 2008

The Dossing times accuses McWilliams of Abuse of Statistics

While I wouldn't go as far as Simon from The Dossing Times in accusing David McWilliams of coming to "plain […]

August 23rd, 2008

Today's Twitter Rant Collation

Robert Solow on Obama's economic policy :http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2008/08/robert-solows-fiscal-advice-to-barack_22.html. If I was O ... # What a lovely idea: wonder if we […]

August 22nd, 2008

Today's Twitter Rant Collation

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