Author: Philip Lane

The latest issue of The Economist features a leader on the contributions of economics blogs and a briefing article that highlights the role of blogs in promoting various heterodox economic hypotheses (including the MMT advocated by various commenters here).

The Irish Times reports on this development in this article.

Zsolt Darvas at Bruegel compares the experiences of Iceland, Ireland and Latvia in this new paper.

The WSJ has a long article today on some of the key episodes in the 2011 stage of the euro crisis – you can read it here.

Jamie Smyth provides an overview of the current state of the Irish banks in this FT article.

The proposed legislation is available here.