Here’s a piece that ran in Saturday’s Irish Times.
LET US define power as the sustained execution of intended outcomes. What you want to get done, gets done, more often than not. How much of this type of power does the Government have?
Rulers can physically coerce their citizens through force of law; they can change the [...]
In this lecture, we will introduce students to the institutional, legal and political context of enlargement within the EU, and preview and examine the fifth enlargement’s likely effects. We will examine the preconditions for reform, and develop a simple model of development, trade policy, and mobility.
Over the weeks we’ve seen a series of increasingly analytical approaches to exploring [...]
EC4333 students, click here to read an article describing the Lisbon treaty’s possible effects on energy security in the EU. From the article:
A wider and deeper understanding of this state of affairs on the part of the citizens of Europe and their respective member states and the urgent need for the EU to address this [...]
In the last lecture we looked at optimal currency area theory and the evidence to support the hypothesis the EU was one. We found something rather different, but still interesting. We have now almost finished the ‘theory’ part of the course, and are beginning to get down to the real nuts and bolts of the [...]
Also tagged Agriculture, Common Agricultural Policy, Europe, European Union, Handout, Optimum currency areaThe last two lectures (watch them here and here) looked at the history and structure of the EU up to the Lisbon Treaty. We also began talking about trade creation and trade destruction. The purpose of this lecture is first, to finish off the theory of trade, and look at some data regarding trade integration [...]
Also tagged Business, David Ricardo, Economic, EU, European Union, Free trade, International trade, IrelandLisbon 2008: What was it, was did it mean, and why did it fail?
This lecture traces the history of the EU’s development through its treaty structure from the Treaty of Rome to the Treaty of Nice, and spends a large portion of the lecture focusing on the Treaty of Lisbon, which the Irish electorate [...]
First, we’ll go through the course outline in some detail. Housekeeping over, we’ll head straight into talking about the economics of European Integration. Click below for lecture notes, the handout, and the slides for the first lecture.
Also tagged Common Agricultural Policy, EU, European integration, European Union, Lisbon, Nicolas Sarkozy, Peter MandelsonEC4333, Economics of European Integration
Module Outline, Autumn 2008
Lecturer Dr. Stephen Kinsella
stephen.kinsella@ul.ie, office hours by appointment only.
TA Neal Kilbane
neal.kilbane@ul.ie, office hours TBA.
Prerequisites EC4001, EC4002, or permission of the instructor.
ECTS Credits: 6
Introduction The years since 1945 have been the longest period since 113 B.C. in which no army has crossed the Rhine with war-like intentions. The [...]