There are enough sustainable resources for much bigger national economies

We need to understand the differences between trade and financial globalisation

Boosting competition is helpful only if accompanied by strong regulation and incentives to promote investment

It may be unfair to label Irish policy anti-Keynesian

Big government is not an economic burden

Why putting evidence before equations would make economics more like science

Governments should run deficits in recessions and surpluses in booms. That is the basic tenet of Keynesian economics. Deficits support demand and output during a slump, while surpluses tend to restrain a boom and pay for deficits run in the preceding cycle. It is both elegant and effective

Ideas from systems science show that governments must manage the market