Austerity is like 'bleeding' the patient – and may be as deadly  Francois Quesnay's Tableau Economique and austerity.

The Big Issue asked me to write a few words about a typical day, it's below the fold.

"[My] theory is moderately conservative…. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting […]

Writing in the Irish Independent on March 13, I argued we should pay the debt our democratically elected leaders signed […]

RTE's Sean Whelan is giving a talk at UL on Wednesday, 28th March at 4pm in the Schuman Building (S2-05), […]

I've been banging on about Ireland being in a balance sheet recession for some time. Richard Koo's latest paper in […]

Dr. Martin Mullins (chair), Department of Accounting & Finance John Walsh, Editor of Business and Finance magazine Lorcan Roche Kelly, […]

Today's EC4004 lecture mentioned some work on savings rates in Ireland. I posted this on the IrishEconomy blog a few […]

Good news, it seems, from the Commission, allowing us to extend the maturities of our loans, and service them at […]

5 years of micro lending. Wonderful. Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva Microfunds on Vimeo. (ht: flowingdata)

Like most things on the internet this week this blog post is inspired by the riots in the UK. Pundits, […]

I'm not a fan of tips or advice per se, but I have a copy of this printed on my […]

Here's a cool chart I made using this software. It compares Ireland in 2009 and Ireland in 1962. Click on […]

I began academic life as an MS Word snob. Word was the devil’s program, used by eejits who didn’t know […]