Posts by Professor David Jacobson
Professor David Jacobson @davidjacobson48
David Jacobson is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Dublin City University Business School. He is the Chair of Commission on Industrial Policy in TASC since 2011. He has written and lectured on various aspects of industrial policy and political economy in Ireland. In the 1990s he was an independent member of the National Economic and Social Council. He has also worked in many other countries, most recently Cyprus and China.
A taxing fable
David Jacobson 14/02/2012
David Jacobson: In Monday’s Irish Times business editor John McManus speculated about why there had not been more response from disgruntled, …
Integrating innovation drivers
David Jacobson 19/04/2011
David Jacobson: I have been banging on in a number of blogs over the years on the importance of innovation policy, and in particular on the …
Innovation, rather than high-tech, is key
David Jacobson 25/03/2011
David Jacobson: In 1990, in a paper on MNCs in Ireland, I argued that the “completion of the single market” in 1992 would bring pressures on …
Innovation and the smart economy
David Jacobson 09/09/2009
David Jacobson: Innovation is universally accepted as extremely important for economic competitiveness. However, there is frequently confusion as to …
Report is expression of a paradox
David Jacobson 17/07/2009
David Jacobson: Rather than discuss the details of the report, I’d like to make four more general points about the situation. First, the report …
Irish Industrial Policy: Strategic Obsessions
David Jacobson 23/06/2009
David Jacobson: Since the end of the 1950s industrial policy has evolved around two main objectives, the encouragement of foreign direct investment …
Who is Lawrence Summers?
David Jacobson 10/04/2009
David Jacobson: A New York Times article on 3rd April reveals that Lawrence H. Summers, top economic advisor to Obama, earned millions of dollars …
Auditors: one of the guilty parties?
David Jacobson 18/03/2009
David Jacobson: As the crisis progresses (or should that be ‘regresses’?), analyses of its aetiology will no doubt develop in their complexity …
Demand (for solutions) will generate supply - in long term
David Jacobson 22/02/2009
David Jacobson: I can’t help wondering why the people whose theories are responsible for the current crisis continue to be listened to by those …
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