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1. Will the' 10x Economy work for Northern Ireland? The Department for the Economy unveiled an ambitious plan to boost the Northern Ireland economy in 2021, but will it be up to scratch? Professor Anne Marie Ward, Dr Esmond Birnie and Dr Stuart Henderson crunch the numbers to find out if the 10x Economy vision can deliver

Author

Ward, Anne Marie, Birnie, Esmond, and Henderson, Stuart

Subjects
Northern Ireland -- Economic aspects, Foreign investments -- Forecasts and trends, Economic development -- Analysis -- Northern Ireland, Market trend/market analysis, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Business, international
Abstract

Some argue that the Northern Ireland (Nl) economy has strong potential given Its apparent unique trade position as a halfway house between Europe and Britain, combined with the Department for [...]

Published
2024

2. What Should Be Exchanged for a Human Life?: Cost-Benefit and COVID-19

Author

Birnie, Esmond and Birnie, Esmond

Abstract

Has COVID-19 strengthened the case to use Cost-Benefit Analysis (hereafter CBA), including cash values assigned to lives? CBA derives from utilitarian economics. Utilitarianism’s weaknesses have been noted and attempts made to refine its application to economics. The Christian worldview implies an immense value should be placed on every human life. A theological economics would almost certainly critique key assumptions underpinning utilitarianism and hence of CBA. This article seeks to show that this need not mean a ban on use of CBA. We suggest, particularly in the context of COVID, that CBA, including valuations or exchange values for a life, can be used subject to ethical constraints. While this analysis yields ambivalent results as to the cost-benefit outcome for “large scale” policy responses, such as national lockdowns, “smaller scale” policies, such as masks, vaccination, and incentives to be vaccinated, may more likely produce net benefits.Esmond Birnie, "What Should Be Exchanged for a Human Life?: Cost-Benefit and COVID-19," Journal of Markets & Morality 25, no. 2 (2022): 161-185

Published
2023

3. Points of View

Author

Birnie, Esmond and Golden, Dennis

Published
2006

8. When Worse is Better: Economic Policy Making in the Two Irelands of the mid 1950s.

Author

Birnie, Esmond and Brownlow, Graham

Subjects
*ECONOMIC policy, *ECONOMIC development, *ECONOMIC research, *ECONOMIC history, *POLITICAL leadership, *INDUSTRIES
Abstract

Economic Development (1958) remains a document associated with T.K. Whitaker’s role in Ireland’s shift away from protectionist economics. Whatever the report’s exact role in changing the direction of Irish economic strategy, the reputation of Economic Development greatly exceeds that of An Economic Survey of Northern Ireland (1957), which was a report authored by Isles and Cuthbert, two Belfast-based academics. The economic analysis contained within both reports/strategy documents along with their respective fates forms the focus of this paper. The relative failure to implement the analysis set out by Isles and Cuthbert, as well as its relative obscurity, rests on a range of factors. Perceptions of the acuteness of the respective economic problems, issues of authorship, the close interaction between political leadership and major industries/firms in Northern Ireland and the range of actionable policy prescriptions presented in a report are all important in explaining the contemporary and subsequent receptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022

9. Letters

Author

Green, Arthur, Birnie, Esmond, Warpeha, Kate, and McGouran, Seán

Published
1991

10. Terrorism's goal.

Author

BIRNIE, ESMOND

Subjects
*LETTERS to the editor, *TERRORISM
Abstract

Presents a letter to the editor about terrorism in Northern Ireland.

Published
1991

11. LETTERS.

Author

Short, Clare, Batkin, Andy, Pollak, Dov, Williams, Hugh, Gavin, Rupert, Brown, Stefanie, Melchett, Peter, Nauli, Sehat, Papadopoulos, Christos, Worthy, Marc, Sturr, Kevin, Berlowitz, Pinchas, Tristano, Riccardo, Oliva, Pierluigi, Bones, Dennis, Birnie, Esmond, and Damashek, Laurel

Published
1999

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