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Article: Ireland: Lessons from Success and from Failure
5 November 2010, Roger Kerr, Otago Daily Times
In the wake of the global financial crisis and Ireland’s self-inflicted economic woes, some commentators have leapt to the conclusion that its apparent success in the decade and a half to around 2005 was a mirage.
They have pronounced the Celtic Tiger dead, and added insult to injury by arguing that current austerity policies will make Ireland’s predicament worse.
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Article: Do Economists Agree on Anything? Yes!
2 November 2007, Roger Kerr
You sometimes hear the line that if all the world's economists were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach a conclusion. This is something of a cheap shot.True, there are debates in economics, just as there are in any science (take climate change). And in economics there are outliers (and many amateurs), just as there are quacks in medicine.
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