Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Limerick.
Several of this blog’s commentators have signed the letter calling for an end to tax havens, details of the letter itself, and the full list of signatories, are here.
I’d welcome commenters’ thoughts on the issue of tax havens (not just in an Irish context, of course).
I’m very excited to announce this blog’s new contributors, who you’ll be hearing a lot more from soon:
Irwin Collier has a fascinating blog with archival materials on the kinds of things the great economists taught via their course outlines. He has other stuff up there, but I know readers of this blog will enjoy this site. There’s some Irish work of interest here too: You’ll find references to Cairnes in Orcutt’s 1950 Empirical Economics courses, the work of UCD’s George O’Brien work on mediaeval economic thought appears on the Harvard reading list c.1950, and more.
Given that an agreement looks likely, it’s probably worth opening a thread on what commenters believe the new programme for government should contain, what it might contain, what that weird intersection of politics and economics means it will contain.
UCC’s Robbie Butler talks to Frank Conway for the Economic Rockstar Podcast, hopefully embedded below.