William Kingston was Professor of Innovation in the Business School of Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of several books on related topics, the most recent of which is How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation.

«It provides a fascinating and thoroughly unique perspective on a range of important issues that are normally dealt with in isolation (when considered at all)…The valuable ideas expressed in this book deserve a broad audience».(The Economic and Social Review on the first Edition)

• Contents: Democracy and Governance – Understanding Democracy Through 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 – Business and the Economy – Why Ireland Failed to Keep Up – Need the Irish Economic Experiment Fail? – Nice Rents If You Can Get Them – Entrepreneurship or Rent- Seeking? – Bureaucracy – 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 – Why Did Ireland Spend $1 Million Preventing Research into Lusitania? – Why Was There No Whistleblower in the HSE? – The Importance of Laws for Whistleblowing – Reform Proposals –Industrial Policy: Responding to Covid 19 – An Alternative Agenda for Public Service Reform – Innovation: New Property Rights Are Better than State Involvement – Transforming the Conditions for Indigenous Innovation – A Patent System to Suit Ireland? – The Financing of New Businesses – History – The Evolution of Limited Liability from Its Dublin Origin – Gladstone’s Irish Lesson for the EU – Chance, Genes and Antibiotics: Irish Involvement in Two Scientific Revolutions.

William Kingston was Professor of Innovation in the Business School of Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of several books on related topics, the most recent of which is How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation.

«It provides a fascinating and thoroughly unique perspective on a range of important issues that are normally dealt with in isolation (when considered at all)…The valuable ideas expressed in this book deserve a broad audience».(The Economic and Social Review on the first Edition)

• Contents: Democracy and Governance – Understanding Democracy Through 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 – Business and the Economy – Why Ireland Failed to Keep Up – Need the Irish Economic Experiment Fail? – Nice Rents If You Can Get Them – Entrepreneurship or Rent- Seeking? – Bureaucracy – 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 – Why Did Ireland Spend $1 Million Preventing Research into Lusitania? – Why Was There No Whistleblower in the HSE? – The Importance of Laws for Whistleblowing – Reform Proposals –Industrial Policy: Responding to Covid 19 – An Alternative Agenda for Public Service Reform – Innovation: New Property Rights Are Better than State Involvement – Transforming the Conditions for Indigenous Innovation – A Patent System to Suit Ireland? – The Financing of New Businesses – History – The Evolution of Limited Liability from Its Dublin Origin – Gladstone’s Irish Lesson for the EU – Chance, Genes and Antibiotics: Irish Involvement in Two Scientific Revolutions.

William Kingston was Professor of Innovation in the Business School of Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of several books on related topics, the most recent of which is How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation.

«It provides a fascinating and thoroughly unique perspective on a range of important issues that are normally dealt with in isolation (when considered at all)…The valuable ideas expressed in this book deserve a broad audience».(The Economic and Social Review on the first Edition)

• Contents: Democracy and Governance – Understanding Democracy Through 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 – Business and the Economy – Why Ireland Failed to Keep Up – Need the Irish Economic Experiment Fail? – Nice Rents If You Can Get Them – Entrepreneurship or Rent- Seeking? – Bureaucracy – 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 – Why Did Ireland Spend $1 Million Preventing Research into Lusitania? – Why Was There No Whistleblower in the HSE? – The Importance of Laws for Whistleblowing – Reform Proposals –Industrial Policy: Responding to Covid 19 – An Alternative Agenda for Public Service Reform – Innovation: New Property Rights Are Better than State Involvement – Transforming the Conditions for Indigenous Innovation – A Patent System to Suit Ireland? – The Financing of New Businesses – History – The Evolution of Limited Liability from Its Dublin Origin – Gladstone’s Irish Lesson for the EU – Chance, Genes and Antibiotics: Irish Involvement in Two Scientific Revolutions.