Student Economic Review 1996

Table of Contents

I. Economics: A Historical Subject?

• A History of Value Theory

by Martin Fogarty~Senior Sophister

• Mercantilism Reappraised

by Muireann A. Kelliher~Senior Sophister

• The Mystery of the Classical Gold Standard

by Allan Kearns~Senior Sophister

• Can Econometrics take Economics from the Brink of History into Science?

by Geoffrey Gill~Junior Sophister

• Economics: an Obituary

by Fergal Shortall~Senior Sophister

II. The Irish Economy

• Are Women Driving Men From The Workplace?

by John Reynolds~Senior Sophister

• The Irish Plague - Symptoms and Antidotes

by Barry O'Donnell~Senior Freshman

• A Rein On The Irish Government

by Michael McBrinn~Senior Freshman

• The Future of Irish Rail

by John Carty~Senior Sophister

• The Economics of Partition

by Ronnie O'Toole~Senior Freshman

III. Theory of Economics

• Game Theory - Can We Play?

by Carol Boate~Junior Sophister

• The Problem of Time Inconsistency

by Myles H. Clarke~Senior Sophister

• Exhaustible Resources and Economic Growth

by Michael W.A. de Jong~Senior Sophister

IV. European Union Economics

• Structural Funds : Success of Failure:

by Cormac Halpin~Junior Sophister

• The EMU Illusion

by Fraser Hosford~Senior Freshman

• The 1992 - 1993 ERM Crisis

by Moniel Wolters~Erasmus

• An Examination of the Japanese Trade Surplus with the EU

by Kai Kaufman~Senior Sophister

V. The Economics of Finance

• Speculative Bubbles, Irrationality, and Chaos

by Niamh Brodie~Junior Sophister

• Stock Market Volatility : A Psychological Phenomenon?

By David Barrett~Senior Sophister

• The Threat of Money Laundering

by Mark Kehoe~Senior Sophister

VI. Applied International Economics

• Porter's Diamond and its relevance to Irish Trade

by Barbara O'Toole~Senior Sophister

• German Terms of Trade in the Last Decade

by Stefan Napel~Erasmus

• Privatisation and the Polish Experience

by Cian McCourt~Senior Sophister

• Slovenia : Birth of an Adriatic Tiger

by Fergal Shortall~Senior Sophister

VII. Economics in Trinity

• Anyone for Tennis?

by Robert P. Murphy~Junior Sophister

• Student Economic Workshop

by Carol Boate~Junior Sophister

• The Annual 1996 Economics Colours Debate

by Robert P. Murphy~Junior Sophister

April 1996.