I like getting email. I don’t like getting emails written as text messages. Besides showing very little respect for the reader, receiving emails which aren’t written properly forces the reader to decode just what your correspondent actually wants from you, wasting their time and frustrating them. Sometimes the intention is obvious, like the email I [...]
Here’s a presentation I gave today at the annual Summer School in European Integration at UL.
Here are some links from the talk:
Data came from wolframalpha and FRED.
Figures from Europa and two reports from the ECB, here and here.
Here’s Minsky’s big book to read, info about him is here, and Geanakoplos’ article on leverage cycles is [...]
Hoisted from the comments, and from emails, here are a few answers to this question: what is the point of the economy?
Luke, via email, writes
I think the point of the economy, and any economy is too complex for most to understand due to huge quanity of variables involved. That’s why I always question what an [...]
Tagged General..writes my colleague Dr Eoin Reeves in this week’s Irish Times. Public Finance students, take note.
Paul Krugman shows us the three epochs of non boring banking since the 1930’s, then uber historian Kevin O’Rouke posts the original article Krugman’s piece was based upon, then the baseline scenario produce this graph, and I blog about the whole thing. Brilliant.
The paper linked to by Phillipon and Reshef will end up on [...]
You can watch the whole program here.
Thanks to Keith Kennedy for showing me this. You’ll need that god-awful real player plugin, sadly, but them’s the breaks.
Here are the slides for a presentation on IS-LM and Effective Demand, in the context of the Irish Economy.
EC4006 Intermediate Macroeconomics Lecture
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The first problem set for this course is here, and a handout version of the slides (look folks, no Scribd!) is here.
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Following some interested, interesting, and inquiring tweets from Markham Nolan, Dr Kane clarified where the new exchequer numbers come from, and has given me permission to post his remarks here. Have a read, and get smarter:
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Here’s the low-down. Some basic cash accounting distinctions: some items are deficit-determining, some are deficit financing—also called ‘above and below [...]
And term time is nearly upon us.
Time to get the lecture notes dusted off for another semester.
This year it’s Economics of EU Integration and Economics for Business, with a few guest lectures along the way.
That’s 26 students, and 440 students.
I can’t wait to get started.
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