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Stephen Kinsella

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Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Limerick in Ireland. Economic Advisor to An Tánaiste (Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister) with a focus on Trade.

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Stephen Kinsella is an Irish economist. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick's Kemmy Business School in Ireland and a columnist with TheCurrency.News and was previously a columnist for the Sunday Business Post and the Irish Independent. He has written a number of books about the Irish economy. He is associated with the Post Keynesian school of economic thought in general and the development of stock flow consistent models in particular. He co-hosts a podcast Ann & Steve Talk Stuff, with Ann Blake. .. more

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

It tries hard to be one

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #Budget26 day to all who celebrate.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 11d

More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/

Scatterplot showing a correlation between rates of chocolate consumption and rates of Nobel Laureates

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Sep 4

I currently have some weirdness on my personal site related to an apostrophe somewhere! But after 18 years I’m used to wrecking it periodically

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Aug 29

This was great fun. Learned a lot too!

Gerry Arthurs @gerryarthurs.bsky.social · Aug 29

I was delighted to take part in a fascinating panel discussion on Global Horizons with @stephenkinsella.bsky.social @howardemma.bsky.social Barry Doyle, Mayor Greg Ballard & expertly chaired by Mark Redmond, as part of the Kennedy Summer School & Wexford Chamber & Wexford Council. Great engagement.

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Gerry Arthurs @gerryarthurs.bsky.social · Aug 29

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Aug 26

In United States of American, property steals you.

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Aug 23

The masts are often contracted as long term rentals of a farmer’s land. Same for telecom masts.

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Aug 23

Other totally unappreciated benefit: thanks to the rental income flow, farms are financially viable at smaller scales, retaining family-size operations and hence more rural communities.

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Aug 20

Bravo, @kjhealy.co. Bravo. And congrats!

kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

American

In 1995, at the beginning of the last week of August, on the afternoon of an inhumanly hot and intolerably humid day, I arrived at Newark Airport to live in the United States. I was twenty two years o...

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Dec 18

One very good gift for Christmas would be my excellent and award-winning memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died, which is much, much funnier than that title makes it sound.

Here's a little taste, featuring the joys of Christmas with ten siblings.

BUY HERE: mammybook.com

There’s a story my family tells around Christmas. As kids,
that time of year was obviously pretty manic, but made
more so by the fact each of us fancied ourselves as having prom
inent careers in showbusiness. We all sang in choirs at one time
or another, and some of us in several at the same time.
I was less involved than most, yet even I sang in choirs for at
least ten years, and the Christmas period was a time of constant
shuttling between different masses or meetings or festive per
formances. Most of us were then also in school shows, nativities
or orchestra recitals, and in the run- up to Christmas, a few of
us even did the fully produced commercial pantos in town. I
somehow never made the cut for those things, which I found
odd because my kind eyes and easy way with people reminded
many of a young Marlon Brando.
In any case, quite aside from the rigmarole of cooking
and presents and the management of infant expectations
that Christmas would demand from a single parent of eleven

children, my father was rushed off his feet getting us to and
from these various functions, and dealing with the preparations
for overlapping performances. Walking through our house
over Christmas was like a trip through the Warner Bros. lot
in late- seventies Hollywood, only instead of showgirls and
spacemen there would be assembled children dressed in their
Sunday best, or as shepherds, or in the costume of some brutally
crowbarred topical character favoured by school plays at the
time. Many will remember my delighted turn as Reuben, the
inexplicably French brother in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, not least for my having done the entire thing dressed
as Eric Cantona.
The main event

One of those Christmassy mornings, my brother
Shane was singing at three Masses in a row. That’s the 10,
the 11 and the 12:15. After each, my dad would talk to a few fellow parishioners here and there, and pick up others of us
who were at other Masses or concerts nearby. Owing to the
comings and goings, headcounts got twisted, and on the
drive back Shane turned round, surveyed the contents of the
minibus and noticed that Dearbhaile was missing. She had
been there in the chapel after the service, but had obviously
stayed too long chatting to a friend and Daddy, understand
ably frazzled and depleted, had taken off without realising
she wasn’t on board.

He turned tail and raced back to the church to pick her up.
He was furious. ‘How did none of you notice she was missing?’
he fumed, and everyone felt chastened at their lack of aware
ness, imagining her now crying on the steps of the church
alone, or worse, in the company of scandalised and judgemental
parishioners – or clergy – wringing their hands, apt to be tell
ing tales very soon about the poor, rudderless O’Reilly clan,
demented by grief, incapable even of counting themselves.
When the bus finally reached Dearbhaile, however, she was
smiling and happy, and neither in the company of some sour-
faced scold among the congregation, nor alone.

I was standing there, unmissed, beside her.

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Nature @nature.com · Dec 19

We've just joined Bluesky 🎉 Follow us for research, news, comment and opinion from Nature journal 🧪

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Charlie Taylor @charlietaylor.bsky.social · Dec 28

Here is my look back at Irish tech in 2024 and what to expect in the new year

www.businesspost.ie/tech-news/nd...

NDRC, Hban, Leo Clancy, funding and more: Charlie Taylor’s year in tech - and what lies ahead

A year that started with great optimism turned somewhat sour as a series of challenges emerged in the second half of 2024

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Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · Jan 13

Keynes famously said that in the long run we are all dead, but he may have been optimistic.
In my new book, I examine the new politics of emergency and defend the relation between democracy and the future, past & present. Out 1st Feb. 2024 with Profile Books
profilebooks.com/work/in-the-...

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · Jan 10

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Jun 14

Also correlated: AOC is not funded in the same way the other pols are. She’s not just an individual exemplar but an example of an alternative business model for a US Politician.

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Jun 10

The thing I love about these pieces is no one cares this lad has a Nobel prize. Like it is not even mentioned.

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Jun 8

Preach, J. H. Newman.

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Jun 8

I am rewatching Buffy with my 14 year old episode by episode. Tv today is so much better but Mr Giles as Punk Rock ‘ripper’ is something I’d be here for.

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · May 26

Looking forward to learning a bit from @gavreilly.com

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · May 17

Banger. Weirdos ftw.

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · May 17

Pretty sure we’ve got the same
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · May 17

It’s so interesting how few acts really understand the assignment. Finland not one of them.

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · May 7

Approximately 2 shipping containers of pennies- 140m dollars. Endless annoyance caused by paying for stuff in pennies- priceless.

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · May 3

Yes—it is great fun but also why you don’t see social scientists on those banned skill export lists

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · May 3

Teaching CS as social science and within it is really interesting. It’s like putting a motor inside the usual social science stuff. They can *do* things almost immediately and survey the consequences.

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · May 1

Indeed!

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · May 1

Policy matters, folks. Bad policies like Brexit have long lasting negative effects.

Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · May 1

Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded....

Spoiler, it does not end happily

www.ft.com/content/342d...

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · May 1

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