Brian M. Lucey

Tag: economists

  • Wage control: Only for the pixieheads

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    Wage control, it seems, lke much in Ireland, is for the little people. The pixieheads get patted on the head and told how good we are to bear down and buckle up, while the protected elites roll on.

  • Is (teaching) Economics doing more harm than good?

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    Every September thousands of students enter into universities and institutes of higher education. A large number of these take some economics courses. Some 23% of all undergraduates are enrolled in social science/business/Law courses, where at least some introductory economics is very common. Economists also typically teach courses such as statistics, or introductory mathematics for social scientists. And…

  • When did we let economics become the totality of society and culture?

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    The Irish economic crisis was as much a socio-political event as it was an economic crisis. Given that, it is surprising that we have had so little analysis from outside the realm of economics. Economists and economics took or were given a central role in transmitting what was a social phenomena. This book ( “From…

  • Dogs and academic economists

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    Bock, as ever, puts his clammy palsied finger on the button. His truthiness shines like the face of a party hack eating a bag of chips after a summer evening canvass of a concrete estate. Modest as he is, and erudite to boot, he hides his true message in a layer of allegory, metaphor and…

  • What do Irish economists think and teach?

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    In late 2013, Stephen Kinsella and I undertook a survey of Irish economics and finance academics. We asked a bunch of questions on what they felt was core and not in the subject, on how things had changed in teaching over the last 5 years, on their views on the subject etc.  We are writing…

  • Are Irish Economists Shy?

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    Far and away the largest repository of social science working papers is SSRN. Its excellent, even if it at times seems frustratingly hard to navigate. Its big What is curiously missing are irish economists or economic departments.  Harvard have over 500k papers downloaded from SSRN, Tilburg 438k, MIT 400k etc.  The economics papers dominate SSRN,…