Here are some notes (google doc) from the talk I gave at NUI, Galway, yesterday. Thanks to the Lit and Deb society for inviting me down, and to Senator Boyle for the chance to debate with him. I learned a lot, I won, and it was a laugh. Of course I based a fair amount of [...]
Tagged Add new tag, Debate, Galway, Ireland, National University of Ireland Galway, NUI, Public Speaking, Social Sciences, SpeechThis is going to be well worth going to folks, organised by ISKS at UL.
Following on from the first ISKS conversation between Professor Ruth Levitas and Michael D. Higgins on transformative tools for a better Ireland, the second conversation focuses on the options now facing Irish society before what is likely to be the most [...]
Ridiculously busy today with deadlines, but here’s a quick quote from Prof. Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912-1985, p. 631, which I took from Michael O’Sullivan’s Ireland and the Global Question.
Small states must rely heavily on the quality of their strategic thinking to counter their vulnerability to international influences.
Think we’ve done that well, recently? The quote struck [...]
Here’s a book chapter forthcoming (in edited version) in Corporate Governance in Ireland: An Irish Perspective, edited by Dr Ailbhe O’Neill of Trinity College, Dublin. Here’s the abstract, the link for the working paper version is below.
This chapter advances a financial fragility hypothesis[1] to explain many of the determinants of the 2009/2010 Irish recessionary period. [...]
Tagged EC4024Farjoun and Machover’s classic on Probabilistic Political Economy is now available for free download, you lucky sods. Just click the image below to get the .pdf. Thanks to Dr. Ian Wright for putting this up for everyone, it’s a pure public good.
This is the second part of the course, where we look at strategic behaviour under uncertainty. Lectures one, two, three, and four were all about establishing the theory of demand under certain conditions. We don’t live in a world of certainty, but its exact opposite, so we must change the theory to account for the [...]
Tagged Black Swan, Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Games, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Nassim Taleb, Research, RiskClick below to watch Robert Kennedy talking about Gross National Product and its flaws, more than 40 years ago. EC4004 students should pay particular interest. It’s a lovely piece of film.
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