David McWilliams Receives UCD L&H James Joyce Award
UCD’s Literary and Historical Society welcomed economist, writer, and podcaster David McWilliams to UCD to receive the James Joyce Award last month. Upon receipt of the award, McWilliams joins a…
The Pandemic Has Upended Economics | Will Governments Keep Up?
Earlier this year, the Department of Finance announced its expected budget deficit for 2020 to add up to around €19 billion. Yet, expenditure sustained, and the government continued to announce…
Our Favourite Economics and Business Books
Business and economics can often come across as inaccessible in academia. It can feel like fancy words are designed to complicate things that your average man or woman on the…
Some Schools Increase Credits Per Module to Increase Depth of Learning
On July 8th, it came to the attention of UCD Politics students that some 3rd year Politics modules credits have been increased from 5 credits to 10 credits. There is…
Why it is time to rethink Econ 101
There is something foul in the state of economics. At the best of times beginners economics courses are overly simplistic, at the worst of times they are ideologically driven and…
Trump’s Booming US Economy Is On Borrowed Time
Donald Trump may be broadly unpopular, but there is no denying that the US economy has improved since he took office. Unemployment is low, the stock market is high, and…
God save the…Economy?
In the EU Commission’s Winter Economic Forecast it states that Ireland’s economy will grow at the fastest rate in Europe with a predicted GDP growth of 4.5 per cent in…