One of the great scientific achievements of the second half of the twentieth century was the advance in linguistics. Noam Chomsky was one of its foremost exponents. Chomsky and his followers claim that human beings have an inbuilt ‘language acquisition device’ which allows children to...

The Austrian economists' analysis of the trade cycle and the Great Depression has relevance for the current global economic crisis. Excessive bank lending leads to unsustainable distortions in the economy causing the recession, which government spending can do little to mitigate. The long-run...

This article analyses the energy statistics of 15 European Union countries (EU-15), giving special emphasis to the installed solar photovoltaic and thermal collector capacity. The installed capacities per capita are analysed in relation to the solar radiation income of respective countries with...

A pioneering paper by O hOgartaigh, C. and O hOgartaigh, M. (2006) 'Sophisters, economists and calculators': pre-professional accounting education in eighteenth-century Ireland, Irish Accounting Review 13, no. 2: 63-74, suggests that the teaching of bookkeeping in hedge schools in Ireland during...

This book tells the story of the argument over the performance of the British economy in the period of depression between the two World Wars. Keynes's ideas were central to the debate. Peter Clarke explains his theories and their impact. He follows the course of the argument in which Keynes was...

Relative to other developed countries, very little has been written about any aspects of accounting history in Cyprus. This is a surprising omission given the extensive and rich history of Cyprus, extending back some 10,000 years. This paper is a tentative attempt to reduce this vacuum. It does...

The Keynesian Revolution and its Economic Consequences is a study of John Maynard Keynes as a publicist, expert and theorist and of the economic doctrines associated with his name. It examines the Keynesian revolution in economic theory and policy and shows how Keynesianism as a school of...