Monday Blog: Imagining Ireland in 2037
What will Ireland look like on Friday 13th March 2037? Nothing like what we thought it might look like today, Monday 13th March 1997. Smartphones, the Celtic Tiger, Depression, Recovery, Trump, Brexit, gay marriage, talk of a united Ireland, an Oscars mix-up, etc. Rather, then speculate on the next...
Presentation slides to Retired Workers Committee: The economic and social contribution of older people
External event contribution Dr Lisa Wilson, NERI - presentation for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Retired Workers Seminar North/South held in ICTU Belfast office on 23rd and 24th Feburary, 2017. The presentation was on 'The economic and social contribution of oder people'.
Monday Blog: Housing statistics - some challenges
A famous 19th century Irish mathematician and engineer, Lord Kelvin, famously once said: “ I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge...
Monday Blog: The Irish economic model assessed (#1)
On this site I have made references on many occasions to the unique ‘Irish economic model’. By ‘Irish economic model’ I mean those features of an economic and social model that place the Republic of Ireland in a somewhat unique place internationally. In this week’s Monday Blog, I focus on some...
NERI Seminar Dublin: Innovative Competence, How does ROI fare & does it matter?
Slides from NERI Seminar on Innovative Competence, How does the Republic of Ireland fare and does it matter? presented by Dr Tom McDonnell, NERI on 25 January, 2017
Innovation Inputs, How does the Republic of Ireland Compare?
The Republic of Ireland’s industrial and enterprise strategies will have to evolve in the future to adjust to changing political, economic and technological realities. One constructive step that the Irish government can take to future proof its economy is to renew its focus on innovation policy with...
Productivity and Innovation are the only things that can drive Long-run Growth
The world is changing and Ireland’s industrial and enterprise strategies will have to evolve if we wish to thrive in this new reality. One constructive step that the Irish government can take is to renew its focus on innovation policy with a view to building a world class National System of...
Monday Blog: Costs and benefits – in hindsight
Posted on January 22, 2017 by Tom Healy A saying from Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde has sometimes been applied to economists. It runs as follows: ‘A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ Now, the context for the quotation is a question posed by a Cecil Graham: ‘What...
Monday Blog: Housing: no surprises
It is now generally accepted that the Republic of Ireland has a ‘housing crisis’. Though the causes are many and interlinked it would be astonishing to deny the obvious: not enough houses have been built in recent times at the right price in the right places for the right people. Result: escalating...
Improving wellbeing: But what is it and who’s responsible? Northern Ireland’s new approach to governance
In Northern Ireland’s new draft Programme for Government (2016-2021) ‘wellbeing’ is embedded as the central concept on which the Executive seeks to base its new approach to governance. On the first line of the introduction to the draft document it is said that the ‘ Programme for Government is...