The duality of (wo)man.

In the late 2000s, degrowth advocates called for society to deprioritise economic growth, arguing that this would make space for us to focus more on the environment and leading meaningful lives. All this came to pass - but not in a good way.

The latest New Bazaar is a chat with Heidi L. Williams and Caleb Watney on the economics of innovation: The Great Stagnation; lessons of past industrial policies; how to design public institutions; Chips & IRA; if new ideas are harder to come by; & more! bazaaraudio.com/the-new-bazaar…

Today on The Rest Is History, we head to the Dublin GPO, where we are joined by the brilliant Paul Rouse to talk the THE ROAD TO THE EASTER RISING. In the 1st of 4 episodes, we explore the course of Anglo-Irish relations from the Normans to the Act of Union linktr.ee/restishistory

If Ridley Scott doesn't include this exact shot in 'Napoleon', I riot.

🚨🚨 🚨Randomisation Klaxon! 🚨🚨🚨 I'm delighted to announce that Economic and Social Research Council & UK Research and Innovation are today launching a £15m funding call for testing policy interventions using "robust counterfactual evaluation methods" - including RCTs, analysis of existing trials data & quasi-experiments

A succinct explanation for why prescriptive legal rules inevitably hinder progress. -- from a commenter on Astral Codex Ten

It is with a heavy heart we say farewell to our beloved colleague Gráinne Dunne. Today we share a clip that shows Gráinne as we knew her best - behind a piano, providing not only accompaniment but a wealth of knowledge and experience to our students.

Thanks to RIAMDublin for sharing this video of our wonderful aunt Gráinne. It's so nice to see her in her element here. We said goodbye to her this weekend but we will never forget her.

早上好. On today's The Rest Is History, the brilliant Rana Mitter explores the extraordinary life of DENG XIAOPING, the MAN WHO MADE MODERN CHINA. How did Deng preside over China's resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s? And was he history's last "great man"? 🇨🇳 linktr.ee/restishistory

My best of lists for 2023: The films, books, and TV I enjoyed the most! I don't have a reliable source for finding fiction that suits my taste (I've learned booktok is not to be trusted), so I'm looking for recommendations.

The Dublin Caro book club is in session! Look out for us lugging the giant tomes around the city.

The In Our Time episode on The Hanseatic League is brilliant listening. We need Hanseatic League/Hansa merch 🫡. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

"How to Actually Implement a Policy" - great interview from IFP statecraft.pub/p/how-to-actua…

We’re taking Statecraft across the pond to answer two questions: What can we learn from our British friends? And what’s wrong with them? First installment with James W. Phillips on fighting bureaucratic consensus and building a new research agency. statecraft.pub/p/how-to-build…

🚀 the team at @ifp has been working on this for a long time, and today, we're finally launching "metascience 101"! it's a nine episode podcast series designed to be a crash course into the big ideas motivating metascience first episodes dropping today: macroscience.org/p/announcing-t…

Terrific analysis of the UK's stagnation, with many parts relevant to Ireland: ukfoundations.co.

This week on Complex Systems, I was joined by Dave Guarino to discuss government software, policymaking, and service delivery. complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/gover…

Fascinating podcast on fraud - including a section on ambulance fraud for dialysis patients in the US.

‘A great way of seeing a new city is to become embroiled in its bureaucracy’ irishtimes.com/abroad/2025/02… via Irish Times Abroad