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Today we had an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together scholars from political science and data analytics interested in using data-analytics methods to extract information of interest from the mass of online sources now available about politics. The workshop was co-organised by Dr. James P. Cross of the Dublin European Institute and Dr. Derek Greene of the Insight CentreContinue reading “Report: Extracting the Political Signal from the Online Noise: A workshop on mining online content and political networks”

This blog post is the seventh in a series of posts that come from students of our capitalism and democracy undergraduate course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to the political economy of distribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholars atContinue reading “Rethinking the Minimum Wage: The Case of Seattle City Council”

This blog post is the sixth in a series of posts that come from students of our capitalism and democracy undergraduate course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to the political economy of distribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholars atContinue reading “Leitrim’s Great Decline: Income, Wealth and Population”

This blog post is the sixth in a series of posts that come from students of our capitalism and democracy undergraduate course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to the political economy of distribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholars atContinue reading “Public Debt: The Paradox of Free-Market Democracy?”

This blog post is the fifth  in a series of posts that come from students of our capitalism and democracy undergraduate course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to the political economy of distribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholarsContinue reading “Is Gender Equality Smart Economics?”

This blog post is the fourth  in a series of posts that come from students of our capitalism and democracy undergraduate course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to the political economy of distribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholarsContinue reading “The Problem of Tax Avoidance: An Examination of Germany and Switzerland”

This blog post is the third  in a series of posts that come from students of our capitalism and democracy undergraduate course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to the political economy of distribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholarsContinue reading “Rethinking the International Monetary System: Do We Need a Bretton Woods II?”

This blog post is the second in a series of posts that come from students of our capitalism and democracy undergraduate course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to the political economy of distribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional young scholarsContinue reading “The Politics of Debt and Distribution: Who does QE benefit?”

This blog post is the first in a series of posts that come from students of our capitalism and democracy undergraduate course. As part of the course, students were asked to write about an issue pertaining to the political economy of distribution. The best blog posts have been selected to provide an opportunity to exceptional youngContinue reading “Taxing the Rich to Feed the Poor: What does Piketty’s Global Tax have that Pogge’s Doesn’t?”

Nominal ‘Unit Labour Cost’ (ULC) is a metric widely used throughout Eurozone policy circles to justify pro-cyclical wage restraint and austerity policies that will reverse imbalances and restore national competitiveness to the deficit periphery. What evidence is there to support this persistent Eurozone policy bias? National Competitiveness Surprisingly, despite the widespread use of the term,Continue reading “Unit Labour Costs – The History of a Dangerous Metric”