Tag: History
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Discover Research Dublin | 25 September 2015
What do Trinity Business School researchers do? Come along on Friday and see. For FREE!
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Disruptive Innovation and Irish Universities post-Leporte
History and business are rarely taught or even studied together. That’s a pity. Economic history, as subject, has disappeared down the memory hole. What is more worrying perhaps is that the methods of historical analysis, careful source text reinterpretations, critical data analysis and a cool analysis, are not often applied to business. Enter Jill Lepore,…
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Further thoughts on TCD rebranding
The TCD re branding issue rolls on. There is a meeting planned for Friday, an open forum style. It will be interesting to hear what developments have happened. Since my last post some further thoughts have come to me. So is it out with the old and in with…
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Famine Memories
We think of the Great Irish Famine as “ago” as in long long ago. And it was, of course. The Famine took place between 1845-1848 and had a shattering, transformative effect on Irish society and economic life. And yet… yesterday I had lunch with a retired colleague, a man in his later sixties. His grandfather…
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Ireland – A nation of economic Bourbons?
This is an edited and extended version of a column in the Irish Examiner 30 November 2013. Tallyrand, the great French statesman and survivor, declared on its restoration that the House of Bourbon “had forgotten nothing and learned nothing” . He referred to the reflexive actions of the new King towards autocracy and revenge. In…
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The Fiscal Compact and Ireland
I was asked to address the Oireachtas Subcommittee on European Affairs on the issue of the Fiscal Compact, and did so this morning (18 May 2012). Below is the briefing note which I forwarded to the members. We were asked to be succinct and to talk for 5 minutes prior to questioning, hence the rather…
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Down the Memory Hole: why we should give more priority to economic and financial history
A few months ago I found myself teaching third-year students for about one hour on the historical experience of stocks and bonds in relation to the risk/return characteristics. I’m sure most people who have taught finance will have come across these phenomena, where one finds oneself referring to a for the students historical but in…