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 is not simply an economic phenomenon—societies experience it in different ways, socially, politically, […]

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 […]

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 […]

A set of brilliant talks, the best of which by Prof. Ed Nell, on where the NewSchool has come from, […]

Recovery is under way but it's too soon for income tax cuts Prudence should be the watchword for this budget. […]

I have a short paper on the Irish experience of austerity in the latest CESifo forum.

GAA's Sky deal exploits the social value that its members built for free Or: when is kicking a ball around […]

My slides from last week's public lecture entitled Limerick: A brighter future are here (.pdf) Thanks again to the organisers for the opportunity to […]

Here are the slides of a talk on governance post-Troika (.pdf) I gave at the European Commissions Post-Troika event on […]

Eyes of Europe on our banks because the job is still far from done Ireland's banks problems still aren't fixed. […]

Mortgage debt doesn't simply disappear, no matter how much is written off by banks Private banks create and destroy money […]