Something I'm very proud of, even though I was a very, very small part of it, the health futures lab online exhibition.
Why rules which favour the wealthy are unlikely to change
Rules are resources in advanced societies, and they are set up to benefit one set of actors disproportionately. There's no longer a debate to be had about this. The real debate is what you do about it when those who make the rules benefit from those rules staying the same.
Management of policy matters now more than ever before
Implementation of policy matters more, in the end, than political management of policy.
A Sinn Féin finance minister will be forced to balance the books – just like anyone else
It's Europe, stupid. We just can't assume away institutional details which will curb policy directions mooted by political parties.
Sinn Fein haven't explained yet how they would balance the books with wealth tax
Looking closely at the Wealth tax mooted by Sinn Féin. Time to take the party's economic policies seriously.
House price inflation is not proof of a recovering economy
Domestic demand, wage growth, employment growth. These things matter. House prices just aren't a sign of a robust recovery.
Penny slowly dropping that austerity on its own won't work
Ever.So.Slowly.
We've had six years of cuts and tax hikes but medical card savings may be the final straw
Health care spending is not like other spending. When you given entitlements as a government, it is very, vary hard to take them back. The voting public are loss averse and will escort you out of you job as a government fairly quickly.
The final, bitter cost of austerity is yet to play out here
Short term pain, long term, well, pain.
Austerity: Economic, Political, and Social Perspectives
Austerity: Economic, Political, and Social Perspectives
Austerity is not simply an economic phenomenon—societies experience it in different ways, socially, politically, and geographically. The aim of this event is to bring leading thinkers to probe the complex effects of austerity on the European economies forced to experience it by the global economic crisis.
The event will be live-streamed through the INET and YSI network, shown at the Festival of Economics at the University of Trento, as well as various blogs and community sites like Irisheconomy.ie, and we encourage submissions to the panel, which can come in the form ofemail questions, tweets, and via facebook.
Austerity: Economic, Political, and Social Perspectives
Friday, May 30 Kemmy Business School, UL KBG-16 (map)
Livestream from YSI event in the Univeristy of Limerick, All times are CET
10.00 -10.30 Opening by Dean of the Kemmy Business School, Dr. Philip O’Regan
10.30-12.00 Panel 1: Beyond the theory: Austerity as an economic, and political, reality
Mary Regan, Political Editor of the Irish Examiner, Chair
Mark Blyth, Brown University
Johnathan Hopkin, London School of Economics
Niamh Hardiman, University College, Dublin
John McHale, NUI, Galway & Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
12.00-12.30 Break
12.30-2.00 Panel 2: The wider consequences of austerity on society
Stephen Kinsella, University of Limerick, Chair
Niamh Hourigan, University Collge, Cork
Carmel Hannon, University of Limerick
Seamus Coffey, University College, Cork
Julien Mercille, University College, Dublin
Yet more talking head:
This time at the TASC seminar series, on post-Troika governance. Video is here.
With our high level of household debt, we'll suffer if deflation spreads across eurozone
Thinking about the latest European Commission Spring Forecast.
Talking head time:
Talking head time. Myself and Lorcan Roche Kelly get our deflation on over at Boom Bust TV.
Boom and bust boil down to ethical choices – let's hope politicians make the right ones
Ethics matter, but whose?
Young and old dealing with debt differently but it remains economy's biggest problem
Looking carefully at the age structure of the population is crucial, the ESRI is approaching this in the right way if Kevin Timoney's and Petra Gerlach-Kristen's work is any indication, I think. More like this, please.