Aidan Kane: Writings, etc.

... including papers, presentations, newspaper articles and the like.

Research papers, policy reports etc.

  1. “Irish membership of CERN (European Particle Physics Laboratory)” Report for the Department of Public Enterprise, Dublin: September 2001. |Details |

  2. “Indicators and Evaluation for Science, Technology and Innovation” Working paper for Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (ICSTI) Task Force on Metrics and Impact, Dublin: April 2001. |Details | Download >

  3. “Rationales for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy” Working paper for Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (ICSTI), Task force on Force on Metrics and Impact, Dublin: April 2001. |Details | Download >

  4. “Innovation Policy in Ireland: Economic Ideas and Institutional Diversity” Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, XXVIII:I, pp. 115-25: 1999. |Details | Download >

  5. “Into EMU without the UK: Managing the Consequences” Paper for conference of the Galway Chamber of Commerce and Industry: 2nd March 1998. |Details | Download >

  6. “Fiscal Aggregates for the Irish Central Government since 1922” Paper for seminar of the Dublin Economics Workshop: 1st December 1995. |Details |

  7. “Monetary Union and Optimal Currency Areas” paper for ERASMUS Intensive Course on European Integration, Universite de Poitiers: October 1995. |Details | Download >

  8. “Public Expenditure: Trends and Prospects” Irish Banking Review, Summer: 1995. |Details |

  9. “Accounting for Government: the Irish Case” Paper for seminar of the Foundation for Fiscal Studies, Dublin: 13th March 1995. |Details | Download >

  10. “Irish Fiscal Policy: an Econometric Assessment of Politico-economic Explanations” Paper for annual conference of the Irish Economic Association: May 1994. |Details |

  11. “A Public Choice View of Irish Property Rights” Studies, Winter, pp. 459-67: 1993. |Details | Download >

  12. “Reforms in Irish Public Financial Procedures” Paper for seminar of the Foundation for Fiscal Studies, Dublin: 21st October 1993. |Details | Download >

Presentations

  1. “Irish public finances 1922/23 to 1963/64: work-in-progress on a new dataset” Presentation at seminar series, Department of Economics, University of Limerick: 27th April 2007. |Details | Download >

  2. “Economic perspectives on liberalising legal education” Presentation to Symposium on Legal Education, Trinity College Dublin: 29th September 2006. |Details |

  3. “Creating and managing research databases via web interfaces: an introduction” Presentation to CISC Seminar Series, NUI Galway: 18th February 2005. |Details |

  4. “Irish Public Finances 1922 to 1963: a new dataset (work-in-progress)” Presentation to annual meeting of the Historical National Accounts Group (HNAG) at the Institute for International Integration Sudies, Trinity College Dublin.: 28th January 2005. |Details |

  5. “Economic perspectives on property rights” Presentation to Faculty of Law Seminar Series, NUI Galway : 4th November 2004. |Details |

  6. “Human Resources for the Innovation Society: a Review of Recent Data” Presentation for CISC Seminar Series, NUI Galway: 30th September 2004. |Details | Download >

  7. “Saying the 'right thing': the rhetoric of innovation, and the practice of evaluation” Presentation at ICSTI Forfas CISC European Conference on Good Practice in Evaluation of Research, NUI Galway: 24th May 2004. |Details | Download >

  8. “Fiscal policy in context” Presentation to Pre-Budget 2002 Open Forum, Department of Economics NUI Galway: 28th November 2001. |Details | Download >

  9. “The Shadow of a Market” Presentation for Millennium Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts, NUI Galway: 2000. |Details |

Newspaper articles

  1. “Leaving Cert system must be examined in more detail” Sunday Business Post: 29th August 2004. |Details | Download >

  2. “Elections are not the only test of democracy” Sunday Business Post: 8th August 2004. |Details | Download >

  3. “Rhetoric of innovation: watch your language” Sunday Business Post: 6th June 2004. |Details | Download >

  4. “Don't mention the economy” Sunday Business Post: 4th April 2004. |Details | Download >

  5. “City of leisure image doing no favours for Galway's future” Sunday Business Post: 24th August 2003. |Details | Download >

  6. “Property rights: wrong if you think you can defend them” Sunday Business Post: 10th August 2003. |Details | Download >

  7. “Finding a way to explain our economic achievements” Sunday Business Post: 22nd September 2002. |Details | Download >

  8. “Little-Irelanders make way for the EU science community” Sunday Business Post: 15th September 2002. |Details | Download >

  9. “Why do intellectuals reject the virtues of capitalist markets?” Sunday Business Post: 15th September 2002. |Details | Download >

  10. “Creative solutions needed to attract more students to computer courses” Irish Times: 21st August 2002. |Details | Download >

  11. “Days of fiscal delinquency deemed over” Sunday Business Post: 12th May 2002. |Details | Download >

  12. “Free to choose? Fiscal autonomy in Ireland” The Scotsman: 6th June 2001. |Details | Download >

  13. “Who's afraid of 10 per cent growth?” Sunday Business Post: 28th May 2000. |Details | Download >

  14. “Tax bonanza allowed for clearing of old debts” Sunday Business Post: 10th January 1999. |Details | Download >

  15. “After the euro: will we need the banks?” Sunday Business Post: 13th December 1998. |Details | Download >

  16. “Charlie's taxing task is to please all interest groups” The Examiner: 23rd September 1999. |Details | Download >

  17. “Supply and demand in the skills market” Sunday Business Post: 23rd August 1998. |Details | Download >

  18. “Should we pay for science and technology?” Sunday Business Post: 16th August 1998. |Details | Download >

  19. “Privatisation: the right policy, the wrong reason?” Sunday Business Post: 9th August 1998. |Details | Download >

  20. “Room for improvement” Inside Business: Magazine of the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland: September 1994. |Details | Download >

  21. “Meeting borrowing targets by accident could prove fatal” Sunday Business Post: 28th August 1994. |Details | Download >

Course notes, teaching related etc.

  1. “Managerial Economics” Module guide for Part-time B.Comm programme, Faculty of Commerce and Office of Adult and Continuing Education, NUI Galway: September 2007. |Details |

  2. “Handling Text and Type on a Computer: A Short Guide for Students” Course notes NUI Galway: 1998. |Details | Download >

  3. “The Format of a Student Research Project in Economics” Course notes NUI Galway: 1998. |Details | Download >

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