Browsing by Subject "Economists"

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    • Aspects of the life and personality of R. C. Geary 

      Spencer, John E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      Roy Geary, Ireland's greatest statistician, was born on 11 April 1896 in Dublin. His father attained as a boy a high place in UK civil service exams and began his career in the customs office in London but spent most of ...

    • Economics and policy: beyond science and ideology 

      O'Donnell, Rory (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      The dominant conception of the relationship between economists and policy makers is one which sees economists as scientists, whose knowledge is, ideally, derived independently of the interests which motivate politicians, ...

    • Editorial preface 

      Boyle, Gerry; Geary, R. C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      This special issue of the Review marks the centenary of the birth of Roy Geary ? Ireland's greatest statistician ? who was born in Drumcondra, Dublin on 11 April, 1896 and died on 8 February, 1983. It is the third occasion ...

    • Fabricating 'Economic development' 

      Brownlow, Graham (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      Much of the literature, regardless of academic discipline, presents the publication of Economic Development in 1958 as analogous to a ?big bang? event in the creation of modern Ireland. However, such a ?big bang? perspective ...

    • R. C. Geary and the ESRI 

      Kennedy, Kieran A.; Geary, R. C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      R .C. Geary's association with The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) was a long and fruitful one. He was the first Director of the Institute which began in 1960 as The Economic Research Institute (ERI), but by ...