Tag: economics
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Call for Papers : COVID-19 and the Real-Financial Economy link : A special issue in International Review of Economics and Finance
UPDATE: We have confirmation that papers published in this Special Issue will be free to access for at least 6 months, as part of Elsevier’s response to COVID. COVID19 has thrown a very stark harsh light on the globally interconnected economy. When this crisis passes there will be an opportunity for reflection on the financial…
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How badly hurt might Ireland be by a hard Brexit?
Another week, another report on the costs of a hard Brexit. Ireland, unlike the UK, has shown a willingness to engage in open and frank debate on Brexit costs. So, how much will it hurt? The report from Copenhagen Economics, on Brexit, was the latest in a series – the ESRI, the government, the EU-…
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Broadband Panaceas
The recent release of new economic growth measures has prompted once again again a debate on regional, from which we can generally read urban versus rural, development in Ireland. To listen to some commentators you would imagine that beyond the M50 ring-road or beyond Blarney there is an economic wasteland, with those few people…
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Pipers, Tunes and Payment in the Higher Education Sector
Recent discussion on university funding has been on the basis of the Public Accounts Committee report. This, along with the RTE Prime-time Investigates program, has led to a perception of a state funded sector out of financial control. Both of these are wrong.
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If you build them, they will come
Ireland has an opportunity to position itself as a leader in an emerging technology, or perhaps a reemerging one. All it takes is political vision, a willingness to face down some entrenched local vested interests and a desire to make a change. This of course means it wont happen, but we can dream!
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Dark forces and Brexit.
With each day that passes and the ramifications of Brexit become evermore entwined. leaving aside the damage that is being done to the UK’s economic and political reputation, we now see the stirrings, deliberate and calculated, of a pot of debate on a putative Irexit, an Irish exit from the European union. Like it or…
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Irexit, EU Subsidies and Agriculture
Ireland, as we all know, is a predominantly agriculture country and the few bob we dont get by selling pigs and potatoes we get as handouts from the EU. Isnt that right? Hmm
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Irexit… Whats not to like, asks Melanie
So the Bauld Melanie, she who believes Ireland has only a tenuous claim to nationhood has waded in again. With the ludicrous suggestion from Ray Basset yesterday that we should leave the EU and cleave to Mother England, she now suggests Irexit as a way forward. It is indeed as she states a no-brainer. Below the…
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The UK is our biggest trading partner – discuss
A very common statement being made now is “well, the UK is Ireland’s largest trading partner therefore…” . Usually this then segues into why we should irexit/cleave to the mother ship of the UK/ act on their behalf as they walk from the EU etc.
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2016 – Goodbye to all that…but 2017 may be worse
Looking back at 2016 it is hard not to think that there were tectonic shifts in the western economic and political system, even allowing for the tendency of us all to overweight recent events. Ever since Cicero politicians have been complaining “o tempora, o mores” and we should have a healthy suspicion of those words…