James Tobin
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‘Nudge’ theorist Richard Thaler wins Nobel economics prize
- Economy
- October 9, 2017
US economist Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Economics Prize for his contributions in the field of behavioural economics, showing how human traits a(...)

Learning through failure: Can we teach children to be smarter?
- Education
- November 10, 2015, 10:00
One of the best aspects of being a teacher is that I have never stopped learning. Last year I had the opportunity to put a theory of learning to th(...)

Quicksilver markets: investors ignore signs of turbulence at their peril
- Personal Finance
- April 7, 2015, 01:40
US stock markets appear dangerously overpriced, and investors should remember that “quicksilver markets can turn from tranquil to turbulent in short o(...)

US stock valuations bode ill for long-term returns
- Personal Finance
- September 23, 2014, 01:45
Bearish predictions of a market crash are largely hyperbolic, as we noted last week, but that doesn’t mean investors shouldn’t be concerned about valu(...)

Monopolies are no friend of a healthy democracy
- Economy
- August 13, 2014, 01:00
‘I t takes a heap of Harberger triangles to fill an Okun gap,” wrote James Tobin in 1977, four years before winning the Nobel Prize in economics. He m(...)

Total of 32 elected to newly amalgamated Waterford councils
- Politics
- May 24, 2014, 15:25
After two intense days filled with a mixture of jubilant displays and defeated demeanors, 32 councillors have been elected to the newly amalgamated Wa(...)

Waterford profile: Councillors face major challenge to retain seats in merged council
- Politics
- May 21, 2014, 01:00
Full list of candidates One of a handful of counties where city and county councils have been merged, the new Waterford County Local Authoritie(...)