Welcome !
I am Professor of Finance at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin. You are welcome to this site, wherein you can find some more details of my research and teaching. Please feel free to contact me by email on blucey@tcd.ie or on +353 1 8961552.
In addition to my academic work I also write a fortnightly column on matters economic and financial in the Irish Examiner
- I am involved in or manage four blogs
- My main blog, where I both muse on what interests me and also give expanded and hyperlinked versions of my journalism
- A blog about the Infiniti conference which I chair
- A blog on Precious Metal Research
- A blog on seafood chowder…
I have worked at TCD since 1992. Before that I was an economist at the Central Bank of Ireland (1987-92) , and before that an Administrative Officer at the Department of Health (1985-1987).
I have a BA in Economics from TCD (1985), a MA from UCD in International Economics, Trade and Politics (1988) and a PhD in Finance from Stirling (2003)
Feel free to navigate around the site, please feel free to suggest changes, bring my attention to errors, or contact me in relation to any of my research.
Hi Brian
Thank you for the consistently level-headed and informed voice, now we need some angry ones.
All I can offer is this, some economic poetry:
http://sfcawriter.wordpress.com/
I hope we can chat some day.
You have expressed all my doubts & misgivings. No easy way out here.Not a fairy tale & we don’t have 3 wishes.
“It is not enough in a situation of trust in the commonwealth, that a man means well to his country; it is not enough that in his single person he never did an evil act, but always voted according to his conscience, and even harangued against every design which he apprehended to be prejudicial to the interests of his country. This innoxious and ineffectual character, that seems formed upon a plan of apology and disculpation, falls miserably short of the mark of public duty. That duty demands and requires that what is right should not only be made known, but made prevalent; that what is evil should not only be detected, but defeated. When the public man omits to put himself in a situation of doing his duty with effect it is an omission that frustrates the purposes of his trust almost as much as if he had formally betrayed it. It is surely no very rational account of a man’s life, that he has always acted right but has taken special care to act in such a manner that his endeavours could not possibly be productive of any consequence.”
(Quote from Edmund Burke)
Need I say more??