Interrogating Irish policies

Preface to the new edition -- Understanding Britain's 'Brexit' parliament -- 'Interrogating Irish policies' revisited -- The lemmings of democracy -- Belief in the superior wisdom of the state -- The electoral system is still crucial -- Why Ireland failed to keep up -- Need the Irish economic experiment fail? -- Nice rents if you can get them -- Entrepreneurship or rent-seeking? -- What can we do about the civil service? -- 'Systemic corporate failure of public administration' : reflections on the Travers report -- 'Marking the card' of an overseas applicant for the post of Garda Commissioner -- 'Ireland spent $1 million preventing research into Lusitania' -- Why was there no whistleblower in the HSE? -- The importance of laws for whistleblowing -- Industrial policy : responding to COVID 19 -- An alternative agenda for public service reform -- Property rights are better than state involvement -- Transforming the conditions for indigenous innovation -- A patent system to suit Ireland -- The financing of new businesses -- The key business law of limited liability began in Ireland -- Gladstone's Irish lesson for the EU -- Chance, genes and antibiotics : Irish involvement in two major scientific revolutions.