. We obtain conditions under which reduction of the largest tariff is welfare improving. Formulae for the optimal tariff …

theoretical argument for tariffs. They showed that a suitably small tariff could, under certain conditions, benefit the levying …

Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. Over the last decade, the apparently … expose the fallacies that drive the fashionable rhetoris of Tigerhood. Four of these fallacies - that Ireland has cast off … liberty are at an unprecedented level for all citizens, and that Ireland is also experiencing a period of strong cultural …

This paper describes the history of famine in Ireland between c. 1300 and c. 1900. Inevitably, most of its focus is on …