As I will be off-line until January 15th I would like to extend best wishes for the holiday period.  Thank you for visiting the site and especially those who took…

Imagine you own or manage an enterprise and someone approaches you with a proposal to increase productivity by 20% – at very little investment cost. You’d at least give them…

This was originally written for Irishelections.com Budgets are like viewing an impressionist painting but in reverse: the closer you are the more clearly you can make out the image, the…

Finally, finally at least one of the commentators beating the drum for stamp duty cuts has admitted what every first year economics student would know: that cutting stamp duties will…

The Green Party’s pre-budget submission is a largely progressive contribution to the economic debate. Of course, the Greens bring a particular perspective, which is becoming increasingly popular if the ‘stealing-of-green-clothes’…

With a traditional emphasis on social redistribution combined with a greater willingness to employ public sector resources, the Left should be leading the agenda on childcare issues. A few months…