Growing the Economy

The trade union UNITE has released its recommendations for economic recovery here.

The Returns to Financial Engineering

Willem Buiter writes here about a highly-profitable strategy undertaken by Amherst Holdings.

Anglo-Irish Bank: “Spending cash we do not have to save a bank we do not need”

Brian Lucey explains in this Irish Times article: you can read it here.

Raise the Last Glass

The PBS series Wide Angle recently made an interesting film on the failure of Waterford Crystal:

New Issue of Economic and Social Review

The Summer 2009 issue is now online here.  This is the first edition with a dedicated policy section [ see http://www.esr.ie/PolicyAnnoucement.html].  Table of contents below:

”The Misperception of Inflation by
Irish Consumers ”
David Duffy and Peter D. Lunn
ESR Vol 40#2 page 139

”
Estimating the Price Overcharge from
Cartelisation of the Irish Automobile Industry”
Franco Mariuzzo, Patrick Paul Walsh and Oliver van Parys

ESR Vol 40#2 page 165

”Social Partnership: From Lemass to Cowen”
William K. Roche

ESR Vol 40#2 page 183

Policy Section

”Resolving Ireland’s Banking Crisis”
Patrick Honohan

ESR Vol 40#2 page 207

‘”A New Fiscal Strategy for Ireland”
Philip R. Lane

ESR Vol 40#2 page 233