Tomorrow Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times Deputy Editor, Author, Angry chap, and all-around ledge-bag will be giving a seminar from 4.30 to 6 in GL1-01 in the Library. Everyone interested in Irish public policy and public life should head along, it will be well worth it.
Update: A recording of the seminar is here.
This headline from the Irish Times, for some reason, gives me images of grannies in camouflage with AK47s and grenades storming the Dáil. The subject is ageing, and the effect an older population will have on economics, politics, and society. The UN Population Division has issued a report showing just how trends in the average [...]
Also tagged Add new tag, Economic, Health care, Ireland, Pharmaceutical industry, Population, Research and development, United StatesPublished in today’s Sunday Independent.
Recovery is not reform. The government’s intended path to recovery is
a mixture of borrowing, pay cuts, and spending cuts. All recovery
plans treat the symptoms of a downturn. Global aggregate demand has
been buoyed by injections of capital by governments. There is evidence
the medicine is working. Global recovery looks in sight. Reform
however, is [...]
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 [...]
The theory of production of commodities by means of commodities has a long history in economics. From the earliest recorded thinking about how households manage their inputs and outputs through to the modern day, the concern with how and why and what people produce in order to satisfy their needs and desires has been at [...]
Also tagged Economics, Indifference curve, Marginal product, Production function, Productivity, Returns to scale