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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Greece, Germany, Ireland…its a cultural thing
Over the last number of months there has been an increasing flow of stories and rhetoric on Greece, that they are lazy, feckless and generally not fit for the Euro. (see here, here , here, here) While Greek economic governance, … Continue reading
Greek crisis may be Irish opportunity
This is a longer version of an opinion piece published in the Irish Examiner, P13, 21/June/2011. It doesnt seem to be online, but examiner210611_crisis is a scan (2mb) of the article. The opening words of the great Russian novel Anna … Continue reading
Thoughts on Tutoring in TCD
Trinity College operates a system called College Tutors. Apart from the general academic mentoring of students, which is quite properly part of the normal expected duties, the notion of a tutor is significantly more expansive than that. It encompasses a … Continue reading
Default: its not (necessarily) the end of the world
One of the things about sovereign debt defaults, whether they be hard or soft, is that there is a meme around them. A meme is a sociological equivalent of the gene. Coined by Richard Dawkins it is defined as “an … Continue reading
