Stephen Kinsella

@stephenkinsella.bsky.social

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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 and Minister for Finance)

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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 · 5d

It's that time of year again when I remind us all of the greatest Christmas song. You are all very welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNv...

White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin

YouTube video by Tim Minchin

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 9d

Watch this. You'll feel much better. It's a video we made tracing one student's journey through Immersive Software Engineering, and it is great.

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Amy Roys x ISE x Intercom

YouTube video by Immersive Software Engineering @ UL

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 10d

We are hiring a new Professorship in my Department, the Kemmy Chair in Economics. We’re looking for stellar applicants to lead the Department’s development in the coming years. Closing date is Feb 27, 2026.

Details here:

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 11d

Is it not much simpler? The returns for them are higher there?

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 11d

It’s so grim isn’t it

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 11d

And you EDO! Been too long!

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 12d

If, like me, you mostly give books for presents, you’ll want to read this. Not a flat recommendation list but a set of strategies for how to give. I’m going to steal the BBC short story one. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · 17d

You will be visited by three spirits

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Nov 23

At one point on twitter there were about four of us. We once joked we’d have to write a paper.

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Nov 23

tbf you had the opportunity to do some very funny things!

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Nov 23

Really? What did you say, did they expect you to chat about Ireland etc?

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Nov 20

Just preordered 2 copies!

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Nov 9

Wrong Stephen Kinsella Ben

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The Economic and Social Review @econsocrev.bsky.social · Oct 31

The ESR is inviting papers for a special issue on “Turbulence and Transition: The Economic and Social Consequences of Contemporary Global Events in Ireland” edited by Conor O’Toole (ESRI), Carmel Hannan (UL) and Darragh Flannery (UL). Submission deadline March 27th 2026 www.esr.ie/index.php/es...

Turbulence and Transition: The Economic and Social Consequences of Contemporary Global Events in Ireland | The Economic and Social Review

Turbulence and Transition: The Economic and Social Consequences of Contemporary Global Events in Ireland

www.esr.ie

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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · Oct 27

Rare opportunity. We are currently recruiting for a member of our senior leadership team to take forward our work on productivity and growth. Do get in touch if interested. www.resolutionfoundation.org/about-us/opp...

Research Director • Resolution Foundation

The Resolution Foundation is looking for an exceptional candidate to help lead our research team. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Foundation’s senior leadership as we seek to turn around t...

www.resolutionfoundation.org

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Oct 7

It tries hard to be one

Stephen Kinsella @stephenkinsella.bsky.social · Oct 7

Happy #Budget26 day to all who celebrate.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 28

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

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.

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.

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.

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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

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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

www.businesspost.ie

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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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