Some excellent recent posts from two of the best in the Irish economics blogosphere: True Economics and Turbulence Ahead.
The IMF report and Ireland’s competitiveness
A quick overview of Sections 1 and 3 of the IMF report on Ireland, which look at economic competitiveness, prices and wages, and taxes and public expenditure.
Academic etiquette, e-communism, onshoring and home run distributions
Links for June 18, 2009, including two attacks on economists and they way they work, one on communism, a discussion of onshoring and a correlation of the day!
Future Focus, recession, Scotland and Cristiano Ronaldo
The slides and a video interview based on my presentation at the Future Focus event, chaired by James Bellini, in Edinburgh on June 11.
Flu economics, climate change and Google Squared
Some interesting links on the potential economic effects of Mexican flu, the latest evidence on how climate change may lead to large-scale migration and yet another tool from Google for researchers.
Sentiment, Google trends and long-run commodity markets
Some links for today, on the topics of consumer confidence, so key to underpinning everything from jobs to VAT receipts at the moment, Google trends as a source of data, and commodity market integration (particularly in times of deglobalization).
Turning points, trade and overpaid bankers
Does GDI reflect a recesssion’s turning point better than GDP? When is best to liberalize trade? And has the finance sector been gobbling up society’s talent and wages? Some recommended reading from around the web and around the world
Economist likes sociologist’s book – Shocker
As everyone knows, economists and sociologists are the faculty equivalent of cats and dogs. As an economist, I’m more or less brought up to think that sociologists are a bit funny, really, and their models and ways of explaining the world around them good cannon fodder. Imagine my surprise, then, when I opened this book [...]
