This is going to be well worth going to folks, organised by ISKS at UL.
Following on from the first ISKS conversation between Professor Ruth Levitas and Michael D. Higgins on transformative tools for a better Ireland, the second conversation focuses on the options now facing Irish society before what is likely to be the most [...]
This is why I love teaching at UL. Occasionally, you get emails like this one. A student in Economics for Business wrote me the following email after a rant in class asking why shouldn’t we double the ‘dole’ to increase consumption. Here’s her email to me, and my reply is below the fold.
Everytime we talk [...]
Innovative visualisation by Ronan Lyons has produced the map of Ireland’s property market, where red means price increases, blue means price decreases. You can see a ‘cooling’ of the market over time, just click hereand the drop down menu and get the idea.
Here’s a series of panels from Ronan’s site.
Also tagged Business, Business and Economy, England, Guides and Directories, Ireland, Real estate, Services
EC4004 students will remember Dr Aidan Kane’s guest lecture a few weeks ago, slides here, when he suggested that Ireland was fiscally dans la merde, and this situation would get worse once the November tax returns are in.
Guess what? They’re in. Here the figures are, and they are not pretty reading. We are 7,894,761 euros in [...]
A quadrillion is a thousand trillion, and the only place you’re ever going see a cheque this large is Zimbabwe. It’s a cautionary note that even though the Irish economy is in trouble right now, we’re nowhere near the economic turmoil of the 1980’s in Ireland yet, let alone Zimbabwe. We’ll discuss hyperinflation in EC4004 [...]
Also tagged Africa, Government, Guides and Directories, Ireland, Names of large numbers, Republic of Ireland, ZimbabweWhile I wouldn’t go as far as Simon from The Dossing Times in accusing David McWilliams of coming to “plain silly” conclusions which represent an “abuse of statistics”, I do think Simon has a much simpler (and less time and data intensive) method of discovering why the increase looked so big than mine: McWilliams just [...]
Also tagged Computer Science, David McWilliams, Ireland, Irish people, Statistics