I’m obsessed interested in Irish public policy, especially its effect on Ireland’s long term challenges. So the Innovation Task Force report, which comes as an instantiation of the government’s Smart Economy strategy document. I scanned the document five minutes after it came out, and overall wasn’t impressed with it, because, like the Smart Economy document, [...]
For students who missed the EC6012 midterm this week, we’ll do a resit on Monday at 11 in KB-1-11. Please bring all relevant medical certs, etc, to the exam.
Tagged EC6012, International Monetary EconomicsThe Midterm resit will be held from 4-5 in HSG-037, right after the lecture. Please note you’ll need to show me a medical cert to take the exam.
Tagged EC4024In the interests of maintaining sanity, I’ll put the second problem set up next Monday to give everyone a breather.
I gather 2nd Year economics majors have been mid-termed and projected out this and last week.
Tomorrow I’ll be giving this talk with Finbarr Bradley, sponsored by ISKS at UL. Here’s the press release:
Confronting the Crisis: Vision of Ireland in 2050
A Conversation between Stephen Kinsella
and Finbarr Bradley
Tuesday, February 9th, 4:00-6:00
Venue: East Room, Plassey House, University of Limerick
Debate about our options amid the crisis that Irish society is undergoing is [...]
I’m teaching on the new BSc in Energy’s Sustainable Development module in Week 6 of term. This is an innovative module, representing a new collaboration between all UL’s faculties. Check out the module blog here, and a few student blogs here and here.
Tagged Add new tag, Blog, Directories, Languages, Modules, Perl, Programming, RSS, Syndication and FeedsAnyone interested in funded postgrads in economics should take a look at the PhD scholarship UL has begun in economics, along with the Irish Times, in memory of Paul Tansey. Please do email me if you’re interested in putting a proposal together-and be aware of the deadline for applications also.
Paul Tansey Economics Postgraduate Research Scholarship [...]
Technical difficulties and, frankly, my own stupidity, prevented me making three points I thought were important on Primetime last night.
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
First was the nature of the problem: banks have liabilities in the form of loans that might go belly up, and homeowners have the other side of that balance sheet with their [...]
Tagged Add new tag, Bank, Business, Financial services, Interest rate, Loan, Mortgage, Short, United StatesPost- this, post- that, post- the other, but in the end not past a thing.
–Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level
2009 was the year that wasn’t. We expected to get past our difficulties in 2009. Instead, our economy’s difficulties multiplied. Forecasts for Gross Domestic Product in January 2009 were for -2.5%. By December 2009, forecasts put the drop [...]
There will be an open meeting in KB-G-16 this Friday from 12-1 for any students interested in applying for an IRCHSS PhD fellowship. Everyone remotely interested in PhD studies should seriously consider going. I’ll see you there.