My talk for the social media summit is here.
In this column two weeks ago I argued Bus Éireann should be shut down. Sixteen years of data convinced me […]
This is a quick update to the the previous post about getting a new MacBook Pro. So far three things […]
Ultimately, governing is choosing the best option for society given many competing alternatives and scarce resources. What is best for […]
We still live in the shadow of the global financial crisis of 2008. Investors need to be clear about this […]
Review of 'The Wealth of Humans', By Ryan Avent, Penguin, €19 Will robots eat your job? Will your kids have […]
Factfile Age: 51 Appearance: urbane, besuited and calm Newsworthiness: the British media turns on the only steady hand in the […]
Slides and readings are at this dropbox link.
Budgets are all about context. They can’t be understood without a sense of the political situation the government of the […]
It’s not a fiscal space - it’s a sweetie space Sweeties for all. The good times have returned, total domestic […]
Tom Waits is always right. The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away. Let’s look at the small […]
Here's my lecture on life cycle inequality (.pdf) for the Queens University Summer School on social welfare and social policy (.pdf). This was […]
We are just starting to see the effects of Brexit on the British and Irish economies, and guess what? It’s […]
For once, Ireland’s civil servants got it exactly right. No, I haven’t been hitting the Blue Nun early. Honest. The […]
Apostolos Fasianos and I take a look at what drove up US household debt here:
Some call economics the science of self interest. When he was six, my son Cillian wrote Valentine’s Day cards to […]
